Group Managing Director, UBS AG and Head of APAC Investment Office, UBS Global Wealth Management
“For shareholders and owners of companies, the report Gender Diversity Matters by UBS pointed out that gender-diverse companies – those with women in at least 20% of senior leadership positions – were more profitable than their less gender-diverse peers. The same study also showed that from 2011 to 2017, a UBS gender-focused portfolio of companies beat the MSCI World Index by an average of 1.6% a year. While this does not necessarily imply causation, gender diversity is to us a proxy of well-run companies with good corporate governance.”