[ I N D E P T H ] asserts that being one of the only women in your department, or on the trading floor, actually offers an advantage by providing diversity and a broad range of talent to the industry.
Commenting on this, she explains:“ If markets capture your interest, let that curiosity guide you. Early in my career, as one of the only women on the trading floor, I quickly realised that being different could be an advantage. The strongest contributions I’ ve seen come from people willing to think differently and challenge assumptions thoughtfully.
“ Diverse perspectives, including female perspectives, offer insights that strengthen decisionmaking and enrich market outcomes. Markets don’ t require a single personality type or background.”
In this context, AI emerges as a unique opportunity to help level the playing field.
AI as an opportunity to equalise Artificial intelligence is continuing to make a significant impact across the entirety of capital markets. Within trading specifically, the rise of the technology presents both opportunities and concerns, ranging from the ability to make workflows and desks more efficient, and ultimately more successful, to fears around losing that vital human touch.
These discussions appear to be a dominating force in the industry at the moment- often front of mind at conferences and other industry discussions- however, there is a further key benefit presented by AI, which does not appear to be as commonly discussed.
Tying into the possibility of advancing workflows and speeding up processes, Simmer highlighted that the advent and advancement of AI will act in favour of the women working in trading and capital markets.
Simmer explains:“ I see AI as such a great equaliser for women. What are we often tasked with? The invisible work. If we’ re able to move higher and higher up that hierarchy of Bloom’ s taxonomy, away from the transactional, away from the analysing, and
“ I see AI as such a great equaliser for women. If we’ re able to move higher and higher up that hierarchy of Bloom’ s taxonomy up to evaluate and create, that’ s where the value-add is.”
EDEN SIMMER, HEAD OF GLOBAL EQUITY TRADING, PIMCO
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