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The Women CEO Project is GLOBAL and the first step of a larger project on the relationship between corporate performance and governance. Other topics will be the presence of women on the board.

This will be achieved using two approaches:

• The first is academic, through empirical researches, publications in financial journals verifying the existence of this relationship, seeking the influence of factors such as the development (frontiers, emerging or developed markets), culture, religion, education… of the countries in question.
• The second is financial by creating a financial portfolio strategy as measured by an index into the final objective to propose investable products as funds or structured products. The index thus constructed will be somehow a continuous measurement of the performance if any. In the second step, if the data are available, we extend this research to private equities.

Outside the academic and financial interests of the Women CEO Project, this project also has significant social aspects:

• Motivate and embolden women to contribute to society and the economy, inspire women managers/leaders and young businesswomen.
• Promote the empowerment of women and public awareness of women’s roles, especially in economic leadership, offer further evidence for policy-makers to devise more women empower policies.

This project started from Vietnam in 2013, will be extended this year to Asia and Europe, and finally cover most of countries in the world in 2015 (see Newsletter for calendar).

After Vietnam VNX WOMEN CEO Indexes Series - VNX TOP 10 WOMEN CEO index, VNX TOP 25 WOMEN CEO index, VNX WOMEN CEO index, IFRC launches new WOMEN CEO ASEAN indexes with Equal Weighting and Capi Weighting:

• WOMEN CEO ASEAN EW index
• WOMEN CEO THAILAND EW index
• WOMEN CEO SINGAPORE EW index
• WOMEN CEO PHILIPPINES EW index
• WOMEN CEO MALAYSIA EW index
• WOMEN CEO ASEAN index
• WOMEN CEO THAILAND index
• WOMEN CEO SINGAPORE index
• WOMEN CEO PHILIPPINES index
• WOMEN CEO MALAYSIA index