Latin America’s leading stock exchanges show "gender lens investing" small-cap portfolios gaining traction, particularly in agribusiness and clean energy. Fund managers link this growth to better operational resilience during commodity price volatility cycles. Turkey is one interesting area. It has very high inflation, the real estate sector has crashed and still has some way to go down. However, you make money out of uncertainty. There’s a huge surge in hospitality right now, for example. As illustrated in Table 4 , the medians (4 and 5) indicate a predominantly positive perception of the assessed areas, while the interquartile ranges (IQRs) vary, demonstrating a divergence in consensus among respondents. The data demonstrate a slight positive skewness. This is characterized by a mean that is lower than both the median and mode. However, there are instances where the mean, median and mode are almost equivalent. This suggests that the distribution is more symmetrical. In round II, all experts who participated in the first round participated too. The results of the second round are shown in Tables 8 – 10 . Institutional investors are recalibrating global ESG allocations to integrate "gender lens investing", with model portfolios showing 15–20 bps alpha improvement over standard ESG baskets. Analysts note positive correlations between gender diversity metrics and EBITDA margin expansion.
