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Meredith Jones

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Women of The Street
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Bio

Meredith is an internationally-recognized researcher, writer, speaker and expert in the alternative investment industry with over 19 years of experience. She is the author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too), which won an Axiom Award Gold Medal in 2016. She was also named as an Inc. magazine’s “17 Inspiring Women To Watch in 2017” and serves on the Board of Directors for Rock the Street, Wall Street a non-profit that provides one-year financial and investment literacy courses for high school girls. She focuses on industry trends with an eye to providing actionable insights and information. Her research on emerging managers and women- and minority-run funds created new investment categories. It has changed the way investors and money managers behave - both in the way investors allocate and how money managers market to and seek investors.

Current position (3)

Author

Women of The Street

Founder

MJ Alternative Investment Research

Board of Directors

Rock the Street Wall Street

Degrees (2)
B.A. Political Science (Government)
Centre College
1988 to 1992
Post Bac work in Political Science/Political Economy
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1992 to 1993

Presentations

Presentations (5)
Women and Investing - Why A Lack of Gender Parity Makes Everyone Poorer

Women & wealth
How gender impacts investment behavior and results
The state of gender diversity in investing
Why gender diversity matters
How to improve gender diversity in the investment management industry

Emerging Fund Managers - Small Is Beautiful

Why small, young and new funds can offer investors outsized returns.

Diversity and Investing

What women and minority managers add to the financial industry and why we need more of them.

Responsible Investing - Themes and Trends

What does responsible investing even mean?
Why responsible investing is destined to increase
The performance of responsible investments

Hedge Funds - Are They Really Evil?

A look at the performance, fee structures and other characteristics of hedge funds that seem to enrage investors and the public at large, and why much of that ire is misplaced.

Past talks (9)
Women in Private Equity
World Economic Forum
New York
December 31, 2014
Diversity and Investing
Talking Hedge
Chicago
December 31, 2016
​Accelerating Women's Equal Economic Participation
Power of Collaboration - Global Summit at the United Nations
New York
December 31, 2016
Responsible Investing
Deloitte Hedge Fund Symposium
New York
December 31, 2015
Spoke throughout the day on various topics
DoDiligence - Reinventing the Due Diligence Process
New York
December 31, 2014
Why Women Investors Excel: The science behind high-performing female money managers
Broads Circle
Los Angeles
December 31, 2014
Women and Investing
CFA Society of Buffalo
Buffalo New York
December 31, 2016
Women and Investing
CFA Society of Iowa
Des Moines & Cedar Rapids
December 31, 2015
Women and Investing
CFA Society of Seattle
Seattle
December 31, 2015
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Books & Articles (8)

Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too)
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
“Performance Persistence of Short-Biased Hedge Funds” in Handbook of Short Selling, Greg N. Gregoriou, ed. Elsevier, 2012
“An Examination of Fund Age and Size and Its Impact on Hedge Fund Performance,” Journal of Investing, vol. 18, no. 1, spring 200
“Identifying and Mitigating Valuation Risk in Hedge Fund Investments” in Operational Risk Toward Basel III: Best Practices and I
“Identifying and Monitoring Risk in a Fund of Hedge Funds Portfolio” in Funds of Hedge Funds: Performance, Assessment, Diversifi
White Paper: The Case for Portfolio Diversifiers (Barclays Capital, 2011)
White Paper: Affirmative Investing (Barclays Capital, 2011).
White Paper: Emerging Managers: Good Buy or Good Bye? (Barclays Capital, 2011).

Expertise (10)

Business
Social & Political
Gender and investing diversity and investing Socially Responsible Investing Alternative Investments Hedge Funds gender equality in careers Impact Investing Institutional Investing

Awards & certifications (2)

Gold Medalist for Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too)
Axiom Awards - Best Business Books
2016
17 Women to Watch in 2017
Inc. magazine
2017
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Meredith is an expert in gender & investing, cognitive & behavioral alpha & alternative investments.

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