Brazil’s Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network Mentors Young Women

Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network Brazil Chapter, focused on elevating women in the industry, held the first in a series of mentoring and training session for young women interested in asset management.

The program, “Financial markets: How to stand out at the beginning of your career?”, featured a panel discussion by prominent women on the challenges they faced in moving into senior positions. The speakers included:

• Flavia Almeida, Península Participações Partner and CEO, who is on the board of BWBN Brazil,
• Luciana Puccetti, Vivest’s Head of Research,
• Maria Victória Guimarães Tofolo, CFA, XP Inc. Partner and Head of Portfolio Specialists,
• Milena Landgraf Tudisco, Itaú Unibnco Portfolio Manager,
• Gina Bacelli, Chief Economist of Itau Private.

The event was moderated by Yasmin Silva, Bloomberg Enterprise Data Sales and BWBN Advocate.

“We established the BWBN Brazil to help make the asset management industry a friendlier environment for women,” Almeida said, adding, “Women who want a career on the buy-side must be talented, put in a lot of work and learn new things constantly.” She and the panel agreed that the characteristics that help women rise to a senior level include initiative, resilience, willingness to collaborate.

The BWBN Brazil program also discussed the Bloomberg Market Concepts, a self-paced e-learning course that provides an interactive introduction to the financial markets. After the presentation, the young women who attended got to ask questions of the panelists in special mentoring break-out sessions.

Bloomberg Corporate Philanthropy designed the program and invited young women who are undergraduate students and participants in two organizations:

• ismart, a non-profit organization that provides low-income, high-achieving youth with access to professional development and guidance programs; and
• Instituto Ser Mas works with young people in the construction and realization of their life projects, whether through the achievement of their first job, entrepreneurship or dedication to an academic, artistic, research and social engagement career.

“Bloomberg understands that education and new skills are essential for women who want to keep moving up the ladder on the buy-side. We hope the BWBN Brazil will help move us toward a more inclusive and equal future for women in Brazil’s asset management market,” said Geraldo Coelho, Bloomberg’s Latin American Business Executive.

About BWBN Brazil
Launched in August 2021, the Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network Brazil Chapter is led by three founding partners: Flávia Almeida, CEO of Peninsula Partners, Tatiana Grecco, Risk Director of Itaú Unibanco, and Luciane Ribeiro, founder and principal partner of 3V Capital Asset Management Ltd. For more information about the Brazil chapter email – bbwbn@bloomberg.net  Bloomberg’s BWBN also has branches in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and Singapore.

This announcement is available in Portuguese.