Female fund managers beat men at stock picks: Goldman Sachs Group

"Even after adjusting for risk, female-managed funds have outperformed their counterparts amid the pandemic-related market swings," Goldman strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a note to clients

Female managers remain woefully under-represented in the fund industry, but they’re doing a better job picking stocks than their male counterparts, at least this year. Among some 500 large-cap US mutual funds, those with at least one-third of manager positions held by women have beaten those with no women by 1 percentage point in 2020, data compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. show. That’s a slight departure from the previous three years, when the gender difference had little impact on fund performance.

Female-managed funds are benefiting from a preference for technology stocks, an industry that has dominated gains. Male managers