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In 2007, I traveled to Evanston, Illinois, to meet what had up to then been for me an urban legend of the alternative investment industry—women portfolio managers. Sure, I knew that women portfolio managers existed. I had tracked several women-owned or managed funds in various hedge fund databases for a few of my nine prior years in the industry. This was, however, my first in-person sighting.
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© 2015 Meredith A. Jones
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Jones, M.A. (2015). Introduction: “The Women”. In: Women of The Street. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462909_1
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