Gender-smart investment strategies can help grow a company’s competitiveness, solidify its supply base, improve its human capital, and help build an overall enabling business environment. This fund manager's to guide gender-smart investing provides a roadmap for fund managers to strengthen gender diversity within their firms and incorporate a gender lens into their investment decision-making. The guide combines learnings from BII and IFC’s experience with over 160 Fund Managers and draws on best practices with a series of case studies from stakeholders across the private equity ecosystem. While directed at private equity fund managers, particularly General Partners, many of the approaches set out in the guide can be adopted by Limited Partners, and private sector investors across asset classes.