Women in Buy-side Trading Campaign
Championed by K&K Global Consulting (K&KGC)
#BUYSIDEWOMEN
Only 10% of these 900 traders are women
The Buy-side Trading Community by K&KGC have a global network of members with over 900 senior, heads and global heads of trading from asset management and hedge fund firms across Europe, Asia and the U.S.
To celebrate our 10-year anniversary, the Buy-side Trading Community are in a unique position to be able to:
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Help make a change and encourage more women to join the buy-side trading community
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Highlight and provide a forum to address this key issue
K&KGC Research
The opinion of 129 buy-side heads of trading on cultivating greater buy-side gender diversity
Emma Quinn
Diversity of thought drives better team collaboration, decision making and responding to our client’s needs
What have we achieved so far with our #buysidewomen campaign:
2022:
January:
✔ Anita Karppi commits to re-look at the #buysidewomen campaign and making a plan of action for the community to address the issues of gender and social diversity in the capital markets.
2020:
August:
✔ Euronext response: "Euronext responds to calls for shorter trading hours"
June:
✔ The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) response "Summary of responses to the consultation on market structure and trading hours"
February:
✔ City AM article: Euronext follows London with consultation on shorter trading hours
January:
2019:
December:
November:
✔ The Financial Times wrote an article "European investors call for shorter trading day" on the 28th November
June/July:
✔ #Buysidewomen campaign continues in issue 16 of the Buyside Perspectives publication with interviews from Andy Maack from Vanguard and Emma Quinn from Alliance Bernstein.
May/June:
✔ #Buysidewomen campaign was promoted at our regional ATF's in Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm and London gathering statistics from 129 traders. It was promoted in our Buyside quarterly newsletter.
March:
✔ #Buysidewomen campaign was introduced at the FIX EMEA conference in London
✔ We championed articles through the Buyside Perspectives magazine amongst the Buyside Trading Community with interviews from leading buy-side women including Eden Simmer from Pimco, Jenny Bloomfield from Schroders IM and Danielle Chekroun from AXA IM.
February:
✔ We raised awareness on social media
✔ Our powerful launch press release generated hits from 122 international media companies through online and social media platforms reaching an audience of 9.8 million readers ✔
✔ #Buysidewomen campaign was launched at the Alpha Trader Forum Global Summit which included two all-female head trader panels: Eden Simmer from PIMCO, Vernita Exum from Vanguard, Cathy Gibson from Royal London AM, Sharon Ruffles from State Street Global Advisors and Louise Drummond from Aberdeen Standard ✔
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Work with the IA and AFME to lobby the Stock Exchanges
Encourage the Stock Exchanges to consult with their members on the topic 'Shorter Market hours'
Anita Karppi celebrated as one of the thirty Inspirational Women: City leaders 2019 by Brummell Magazine
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Our powerful launch press release generated hits from
156 international media
companies through online and social media platforms reaching a potential audience of 91,592,618 readers including:
