Asset Management
Women’s World Banking Asset Management (“WAM”) invests in growing businesses with innovative solutions that enable women to achieve economic empowerment and resilience. Our goal is to create enterprise value and deliver competitive financial returns by investing in businesses that unlock the potential of women as customers, leaders, and employees.
Global Impact
Through Emerging Markets Funds I and II, WAM has invested approximately $115M in a total of 22 inclusive financial institutions across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA, and Latin America, bringing our total women served by portfolio companies to over 10M.
Emerging Markets
Channeling investment capital to promote women’s financial inclusion
Our mission is to deliver strong financial and social returns by investing in innovative companies that offer low-income and underserved people access to finance, supply chains and software solutions that enhance productivity. We create value through advocacy and a dedicated technical assistance facility to optimize market positioning by ensuring workplaces and customer acquisition campaigns are reaching women, and lower market risks via improved understanding and managing of customer vulnerability to natural hazards and weather-related business disruption.
Our Financial Impact
FUND I AT A GLANCE
FUND II AT A GLANCE
What Makes Our Approach Unique
Fund I is a pioneer of impact investing in inclusive financial service providers. Fund II expands the investment strategy in innovative financial service providers, with a dedicated technical assistance facility to help portfolio companies achieve strategic objectives toward growth and inclusion. Each Portfolio Company undergoes an in-depth, data-driven Gender Performance Study resulting in customized, strategic Gender Action Plans – a unique approach to women-focused investing designed to drive the greatest impact. Rigorous, sex-disaggregated data collection demonstrates inclusion results.
Moving forward, WAM seeks to build on this foundation to conduct context-customized market research to help each portfolio company expand its market share of women customers while understanding and potentially addressing their weather and natural hazard-related vulnerabilities.
Gender Performance Checklist: Boost your business with proven strategies
Through our research and customized action plans, we discovered a set of consistent recommendations that emerged across different business models, geographies, and maturity levels. We compiled these recommendations into a universal checklist of attributes, policies, and practices that each company should develop to enhance its inclusivity. This checklist is not only suitable for our portfolio companies but also for companies across various markets, industries, and business models. We are excited to share these findings broadly, hoping to inspire other companies to adopt them.
Portfolio Companies
FUND II
FUND I
FUND I EXITED
Investors
Fund II benefits from two anchor investors who provided catalytic investment capital and grants to the technical assistance facility.
A further ~40 investors across both Funds represent a mix of development finance institutions, private pension funds, inclusive finance investment vehicles and individual investors.
Developed Markets
Advancing women’s economic empowerment through growth capital investments across North America
We partner with owners and management teams to accelerate transformational growth, enhance profitability, and deliver sustainable impact.
Investment Focus
Expansion capital investments in lower mid-market companies to drive attractive returns and enable economic advancement.
Unique Approach
Integrating traditional investing and buy-and-build strategies with WWB’s impact expertise to unlock additional long-term value.
Strategic Change
Delivering measurable impact and pursuing competitive returns through authentic partnerships with management teams, driving strategic change across our investments.
Our Investment Themes
Three interconnected themes representing compelling investment opportunities and transformative avenues to women’s economic empowerment.
Care Economy
Healthcare Technology and Healthcare Services providing essential care infrastructure and driving innovation.
Future of Work
Talent training, re-tooling, upskilling, and management & retention solutions for the evolving workforce, creating pathways for advancement.
Tech-enabled services
Digitization of core services across multiple industries, driving operational efficiency and scalability while democratizing access to essential tools.
We deploy intentional capital to drive performance and sustainable economic development through disciplined investment processes.
Significant Minority Stakes
with active board participation.
Value Creation
through organic and inorganic growth, and operational optimization.
Impact Amplification
led by dedicated impact team enhanced by Women’s World Banking’ 45+ years of impact experience.
Impact Approach
Every investment includes impact value-add by expanding women’s engagement across portfolio companies, and generating positive outcomes for customers, suppliers, and the broader ecosystems.
Investment Approach
Disciplined underwriting of North America lower middle-market private equity transactions seeking compelling risk-adjusted returns and robust downside protection.
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Asset Management Team
Grievances
Any individual or community who believes that a portfolio company of WWB Asset Management has adversely affected or is likely to adversely affect them can submit a complaint to grievanceswam@womensworldbanking.org.
No Offer to Securities
Information contained herein is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any interest in any investment vehicle managed by WWB Asset Management or any other securities. Any such offer or solicitation will be made only by means of formal private offering materials relating to the particular investment opportunity. Access to information about current opportunities is limited to eligible investors pursuant to offerings made under Section 4(a)(2) of the US Securities Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder, Regulation S, or another available exemption from registration under the US Securities Act, and pursuant to any similar exemptions in the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions where interests are offered. Investors must be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of prospective investments. This material may not be construed as or relied on as legal, tax, or investment advice. We do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained on this website and undertake no obligation to update the information.
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Expanding Impact Through Partnerships
Our WAM strategy is further strengthened by integrating the mission and portfolio of Women of the World Endowment (WoWE). Founded by Patience Marime-Ball with the support of Dr. Ruth Shaber and other visionary donors, WoWE was created to shift the paradigm of capital allocation towards diverse teams and impactful strategies that deliver financial, social, and environmental value.
WoWE has built a strong legacy of impact investments and thought leadership. By combining efforts, we aim to scale investments that promote women as leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers in industries critical to social and environmental transformation. Learn more.
Impact Investments
Built a diversified portfolio advancing social change.
Research & Insights
Delivered key findings on the benefits of gender-inclusive investing.
The U.S. Care Economy faces growing demand due to demographic shifts, yet remains underfunded and overlooked by investors and policymakers. This white paper highlights opportunities for investors and offers a framework for deploying capital across asset classes to meet these needs.
