Hedge Fund Traders Openly Rated Women Co-Workers, Suit Says
- Behavior at Advent Capital ‘egregious,’ according to lawsuit
- Advent calls complaint unfair and vows to defend against it
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New York hedge fund Advent Capital Management LLC subjected a former junior investment associate to “relentless, egregious discrimination” and then fired her for complaining about it to the firm’s top executives, she alleged in a lawsuit.
Male traders and portfolio managers at the firm ranked women on a 1-10 scale, called them demeaning names and classified them according to whether men would marry, kill or have sex with them, Courtney Robb said in her complaint, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Robb said she was hired by Advent in August 2016 and fired in May 2017.