Female CEOs Hold Key to Returns for $42 Billion Stock Manager

  • Nordea study shows firms run by women consistenly outperform
  • Female corporate leaders had 25% annualized return since 2009
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Scandinavia’s biggest bank has studied almost 11,000 publicly traded companies across the globe and the results are crystal clear: firms with a woman running the show perform far better than the market.

These are “solid results,” Robert Naess, the manager of $42 billion in stocks at Nordea Bank AB who designed the study, said by phone Monday.