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"Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10 percent of portfolio managers-the people most directly responsible for investing your money-are female, and the numbers are even worse at the ownership level. What are the causes of this underrepresentation, and what are its consequences-including for firms' and clients' bottom lines? In Undiversified, experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipeline. At the entry level, the lack of visible role models discourages students from considering the field, and those who do embark on an investment management career face many obstacles to retention and promotion. Carr and Dudley highlight the importance of informal knowledge about how to navigate career tracks, without which women are left at a disadvantage in an industry that lionizes confidence. They showcase a diverse constellation of successful female portfolio managers to demystify the profession. Drawing on wide-ranging research, interviews with prospective, current, and former industry practitioners, and the authors' own experiences, Undiversified makes a compelling case that increasing the number of women could help transform active investment management at a time when it is under threat from passive strategies and technological innovation."

Purpose
Through an examination of the everyday organisational and social practices, this paper aims to consider gender performativity and hegemonic masculinity within front office investment management. At the core of this research is the need to understand the interactions between gender, power and patriarchy.


Design/methodology/approach
An interpretivist philosophical stance underpins the study. A theory-building approach using 19 semi-structured interviews with investment management employees based in Ireland was undertaken.


Findings
The findings highlight a sector in which gender is performed in line with sectoral expectations, which place men in positions of dominance with hegemonic masculinity inherent. The organisational structures and daily interactions are imbued with male norms, which dictate how gender is to be performed, and which places women firmly as "different" and "outsiders". These mechanisms of inequality are further supported by men's "blocked reflexivity".


Practical implications
The findings of this study indicate clear evidence of a "patriarchal dividend", which is underpinned by the maintenance of closure regimes and gender blindness particularly, among senior male gatekeepers. Such results call for policymakers to go beyond goals of numerical parity and ensure transparency and equality across all aspects of work. A holistic and multifaceted approach to addressing issues of gendered culture and the normalisation of men's privileged relationship with power positions is needed.


Originality/value
This paper is situated within a relatively under-researched labour market space, that of investment management. The findings conceptualise gender as a social process, thus facilitating traditional assumptions about gender at work as a single entity to be challenged. The results also advance theoretical insights of misogynistic work cultures and hegemonic masculinity through the analysis of gendered behaviours within this traditionally male environment.

Swiss Confederation ; Ukraine has extensive public infrastructure inherited from the Soviet times but much of it has fallen into disrepair over the past decades and needs major rehabilitation or replacement so that growth may continue. Creating fiscal space for investing more is one of the critical tasks that facing the country, but a constrained fiscal space together with the use of investments as a stimulus for growth call for more efficiency in public investment management practices. There are a number of fundamental issues that need to be addressed if Ukraine is to make progress in its reform ambitions for public investment management (PIM). The most significant are: (1) most projects avoid scrutiny due to loopholes in classification (lack of definition of a public investment project); (2) there is no effective economic appraisal and appraisal review procedures in place due to limited human resource (HR) capacity, and no common technical standards; (3) the PIM system does not seem to block new projects from entering the budget but allows ministries to delay ongoing ones and squeeze in new ones; and (4) lack of strategic guidance with which to prioritize complicates project selection. One of the fundamental building blocks of a sound PIM system is a clear, legal definition of what counts as a public investment project and what does not. It should be pointed out that this already high discrepancy is only a comparative measure of input values. Developing projects that are output and performance driven should yield even greater efficiencies. Between 2000 and 2008, Ukraine was an average growth performer in a fast growing region, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 7 percent. As the global financial crisis hit the Ukrainian economy it contracted by 15 percent in 2009, exposing its underlying macroeconomic and structural vulnerabilities. As a result of the insufficient structural transformation and impact of the economic crisis, Ukraine now faces substantial fiscal pressures that threaten economic stability and growth. The Government of Ukraine recognized the need for a modern public financial management (PFM) system and put considerable emphasis on several aspects of PFM reforms. Training for the development of capacity in the PIM system is tricky in Ukraine. It is becoming clear that due to the dynamic nature of the Ukrainian civil service, officials are rapidly moving from one area of the Administration to another.

"International Investment Management: Theory, Practice, and Ethics synthesizes investment principles, Asian financial practice, and ethics in a book that reflects the realities of modern international finance and will work perfectly as a core text for undergraduate finance majors and graduate business students pursuing a finance, and/or business ethics concentration, with particular focus on AsiaThe book has a three part structure beginning with the core principles behind the business of investments including securities analysis, asset allocation and a comprehensive analysis of modern finance theory.These topics are then studied within the Asian context, first through the medium of case studies and then via the particular conditions common in those markets including issues of religion and philosophy"--

"Illustrates how investment strategies for tax-exempt accounts don't work for individuals subject to taxes. Offers techniques for comparing tax-efficiency of mutual funds, hedge funds, and investment managers, and presents more-sophisticated strategies for offsetting gains against losses in wealth planning, portfolio management, and estate planning. Includes results of historical research, 100 tables and charts" - Provided by publisher

Abstract The Economic Policy Package Volume X has been announced by the Government on February 11th, 2016. The concrete step of the policy package is to revise the Presidential Regulation concerning the field of business in investment known as the negative list of investment. Areas of business that are experiencing changes in the negative list of investment include the sector of Tourism and Creative Economy. In Bali, the tourism appeal is built and developed, apart from Government and private, is also managed by the community of customary villages. The existence of customary village-based tourism can attract foreign investors or otherwise require foreign capital which may then be agreed upon in the form of agreement. In addition to globalization, other things that could lead to the possibility of such agreement are the liberalization in the field of investment and tourism. Liberalization arises from various international agreements that have been agreed by the Government, such as one of ASEAN regional liberalization with the ASEAN Economic Community. So, to face that possibility, the Government needs to regulate foreign investment in customary village based tourism with various levels of policy. As a normative legal research, the method used in this study is a legislative approach that is integrated with a conceptual approach. Policy and legislation have variations in relationships based on differences in understanding and application of the use of policy concepts. The policies studied in normative legal research, in addition to legislation also concerning government actions relating to the terms discretion, policy, beleid, and ermessen are reviewed. Keywords: Arrangement, foreign investment, customary village-based tourism

Abstract The Economic Policy Package Volume X has been announced by the Government on February 11th, 2016. The concrete step of the policy package is to revise the Presidential Regulation concerning the field of business in investment known as the negative list of investment. Areas of business that are experiencing changes in the negative list of investment include the sector of Tourism and Creative Economy. In Bali, the tourism appeal is built and developed, apart from Government and private, is also managed by the community of customary villages. The existence of customary village-based tourism can attract foreign investors or otherwise require foreign capital which may then be agreed upon in the form of agreement. In addition to globalization, other things that could lead to the possibility of such agreement are the liberalization in the field of investment and tourism. Liberalization arises from various international agreements that have been agreed by the Government, such as one of ASEAN regional liberalization with the ASEAN Economic Community. So, to face that possibility, the Government needs to regulate foreign investment in customary village based tourism with various levels of policy. As a normative legal research, the method used in this study is a legislative approach that is integrated with a conceptual approach. Policy and legislation have variations in relationships based on differences in understanding and application of the use of policy concepts. The policies studied in normative legal research, in addition to legislation also concerning government actions relating to the terms discretion, policy, beleid, and ermessen are reviewed. Keywords: Arrangement, foreign investment, customary village-based tourism