Business & Economics
WorldPride House’s Business & Economics track looked at questions such as:
How inclusive is the business community when it comes to companies run by LGBTQIA+ people and who are the entrepreneurs? Who are the companies that conduct genuine inclusion work and how do they do it? How do we measure financial vulnerability and what parameters come into play?
Here are a selection of recorded events from the track…
Impact Investing – Bringing LGBT+ Inclusion to the Stock Market
Investors are gradually becoming aware of an emerging class of investment opportunities: LGBT-friendly investments. The equity performance of companies with LGBT-friendly policies can be successfully tracked via index or index-related products and show a demonstrably higher return on investment compared to the average index. In addition, participation in LGBT-friendly funds can be leveraged as positive branding in your marketing of other goods and services, provide access to LGBT-markets and contribute to creating a more inclusive corporate climate. LGBT-Friendly investment funds can also have a role in improving overall attitudes toward LGBT people in society and support the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs. OutPerform addresses the global trend of increased acceptance and proliferation of LGBT-friendly policies in corporations across all sectors and presents a way that leverages Nasdaq to serve current and new market participants by introducing a product that will grant direct exposure to the LGBT market segment.
[Event language: English]
Launching of the LGBTIQ+ Civil Society Toolkit for Business
At the request of the Global Equality Fund in Washington D.C., Workplace Pride has created a toolkit to help equip LGBTIQ+ Civil Society organisations to interact more effectively with the private sector. The event in Malmö will highlight the preliminary structure of the toolkit, provide room for feedback and thus begin to prepare CSO’s to work with the toolkit once the final version is launched this October in the Hague.
[Event language: English]