This pitch research letter (PRL) applies the pitching template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on boardroom gender diversity and default risk. The pitching template helped the pitcher to identify the core elements that form the framework of the research project. The PRL encloses...

We study the relation between gender and stock trading performance using data on all trades by individual Finnish investors over 1995-2011. Following “holding-period-invariant” (HPI) portfolio approach - without imposing a heroic assumption that all individual investors rebalance their...

Using the top 1000 US firms from 2002 to 2015 as a tradable stock universe, we replicate and backtest five market-traded gender-diverse portfolios. We find evidence that gender-diverse firms have smaller volatility. Moreover, the gender-risk relationship is non-linear, with optimal female board...