Nagaharu Global, an independent investment management firm that manages portfolios across a range of small, mid and large-cap Asia Pacific equity strategies on behalf of institutional clients and individually and wholesale clients globally, today announced that its recent inquiry in clients financial behavior revealed that investors are seeking opportunities to effectively integrate gender diversity criteria within an investment portfolio now have access to a new framework to help translate social change and greater gender equality into an actionable plan for investing.
Nagaharu Global’s Investing with Footprint Platform has introduced the Gender Diversity Tool Kit. The Tool Kit is designed as a roadmap for Nagaharu Global Financial Advisors to use with individual and institutional clients to develop a tailored investment approach to integrate gender diversity criteria into their investment portfolios.
“We are pleased to provide our clients with this latest Tool Kit,” said Daiki Fujiwara, Director of Investing with Footprint for Nagaharu Global Wealth Management. “As an investment opportunity, gender diversity is about identifying the ways in which achieving balance in representation, empowerment and economic opportunity is material for financial outcomes. With the support of a Nagaharu Global Financial Advisor, investors can take actionable steps towards incorporating gender diversity into investment decisions in a variety of ways.”
The Nagaharu Global Gender Diversity Investment Framework offers multiple approaches that can be used individually or together:
• Gender Diversity as a Screen – Investors can minimize exposure to companies with poor gender diversity records.
• Gender Diversity Leaders – In addition to mitigating risks associated with poor practices, investors may also use gender diversity criteria to identify companies with potentially better risk/return profiles.

About Nagaharu Global

Nagaharu Global is an independent investment management firm. The company manages portfolios across a range of small, mid and large-cap Asia Pacific equity strategies of institutional clients and individually and wholesale clients globally. The team focuses on fundamental analysis to construct high-conviction portfolios using a bottom-up approach. There is a strong emphasis on high quality proprietary research, with more than a thousand direct company meetings conducted a year. Through these meetings, our objective is to find quality companies with strong franchises and proven management – companies that can be held for many years – while ignoring any short-term market ‘noise’.