Yesterday, I had a fascinating interview/conversation with Dominique Mielle – she was a partner at Canyon Capital, a $25 billion hedge fund (she worked there for >20 years). She is also the author of “Damsel in Distressed,” which turns out to be (surprisingly) the very first memoir written by a woman working at a hedge fund. I found it to be a fun romp covering the 1998-2018 era.
We discussed the lack of female representation at hedge funds. Women are generally underrepresented in finance, where it has been improving, albeit slowly. However, the hedge fund sector greatly lags broader finance, which in turn lags gender diversity in broader corporate America. She points to studies that show that male-dominated hedge funds represent a missed opportunity to generate more alpha — a male-dominated investment team is simply a poor investment strategy.
When I first started doing the show (and had to beg people to come on) I just worked my way through my finance contacts (which were almost all dudes). I was rather oblivious to this fact, but once it was pointed out to me, we made a very specific effort to bring more women onto the show.
As the list shows, there are a great many women in very senior posts in finance – from CEOs to CIOs, from Department heads to Chief Economists, etc. We were fortunate to have been able to reach out to so many women who are working throughout finance and convinced them to join me on MiB.
Thus, we add MiB: Women in Finance to our prior lists of Venture Capitalists and Psychologists & Behavioral Economists. I have gotten requests to add Hedge Fund Managers, Nobel Laureates, Billionaires, and others, all of which I hope to get around to one day. . .
MiB: Women in Finance
MiB: Joanne Bradford, Domain Money (May 3, 2024)
Samara Cohen, CIO, Blackrock ETF & Index Investments, April 12, 2024
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist, March 22, 2024
Sarah Kirshbaum Levy, CEO Betterment, January 26, 2024
Cathy Marcus, Co-CEO, Global COO of PGIM Real Estate, January 12, 2024
Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton CEO, December 30, 2023
Linda Gibson, CEO, PGIM Quantitative Solutions, November 11, 2023
Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, September 16, 2023
Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton, July 8, 2023
Ilana Weinstein, IDW, July 1, 2023
Dominique Mielle, Canyon Capital, March 24, 2023
Maria Vassalou, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, March 4, 2023
Jennifer Grancio, Engine No. 1, January 14, 2023
Kathleen McCarthy, Global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate, December 10, 2022
Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management, October 22, 2022
Kristen Bitterly Michell, Citi Global Wealth, September 10, 2022
Lynn Martin, President of the NYSE, September 3, 2022
Anat Admati on Regulations and Techlash, August 6, 2022
Perth Tolle, Life + Liberty Indexes, July 2, 2022
Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder, Kalshi, April 2022
Michelle Seitz, CEO of Russell Investments, March 12, 2022
Samara Cohen, BlackRock CIO for ETF and Index Investments, March 26, 2022
Samantha McLemore, Miller Value Partners, February 19, 2022
Rebecca Patterson, Bridgewater, Director of Investment Research, February 5, 2022
Tina Vandersteel, GMO Head of EM Debt, January 22, 2022
Soraya Darabi, TMV (Impact/VC), October 16, 2021
Lisa Jones, Amundi CEO, October 30, 2021
Joan Solotar, Blackstone’s Global Head of Private Wealth Solutions, August 28, 2021
Christine Hurtsellers, Voya Investment CEO, July 10, 2021
Jean Hynes, Wellington Management’s CEO, February 27, 2021
Catherine Keating, BNY Mellon Wealth Management, December 5, 2020
Penny Pennington, Edward Jones, November 14, 2020
Lisa Cook, Economist/Researcher at CEA & Fed, October 17, 2020
Claudia Sahm, CEA & Federal Reserve Economist, August 15, 2020
Danielle DiMartino Booth, Quill Intelligence, February 29, 2020
Sarah Cone, Social Impact Capital, December 21, 2019
Ilana Weinstein of The IDW Group, November 23, 2019
Sarah Ketterer, CEO/Co-founder at Causeway Capital Management, September 21, 2019
Barbara Kahn, Marketing Professor at Wharton, October 20, 2018
Allison Schrager, LifeCycle Finance, July 20, 2019
Sharon French, Oppenheimer Funds, June 8, 2019
Ivy Zelman on Real Estate and Housing-Related Industries, May 4, 2019
Libby Cantrill of PIMCO, June 2, 2018
Annie Duke, on Poker & Investing, April 14, 2018
Kathleen Fisher, Alliance Bernstein, March 24, 2018
Constance Hunter, KPMG chief economist, February 3, 2018
Brooke Lampley, Sotheby’s Vice Chair of Fine Art January 13, 2018
Jean Case on Philanthropy of the Case Foundation, November 11, 2017
Ranji Nagaswami & the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer, September 30, 2017
Katie Stockton, Chief Technical Strategist September 9, 2017
Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley August 19, 2017
Dana Telsey of TAG Retail Group January 7, 2017
Bethany McLean on Enron and Wall Street’s PR Machine March 22, 2016
J.P. Morgan’s Chris Ventresca & Elizabeth Myers October 1, 2016
Gina Martin Adams of Wells Fargo August 27, 2016
Kelly Coffey, CEO, JPM Private Bank April 30, 2016
Dambisa Moyo (Goldman Sachs, World Bank, Barclays) July 25, 2015
Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders April 25, 2015
BAML’s Michelle Meyer March 7, 2015
Sheila Bair, FDIC Chair August 23, 2014
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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, StubHub October 2021
Charity Dean on Pandemic and Delta Variant July 2021
Barbara Tversky, Cognitive Psychologist January 2020
Hannah Elliott, Supercar Reviewer February 2020
Kara Swisher, Recode/Vox September 2019
Fern Mallis, Fashion Icon February 9, 2019
Bethany McLean on Fracking December 15, 2018
Patty McCord of Netflix April 28, 2018
Serena Williams, Tennis Great March 30, 2018
Kathryn Minshew, CEO and co-founder of The Muse February 17, 2018
Saru Jayaraman on Food Industry February 20, 2016
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MiB: Women in Finance
