100 Women in Hedge Funds is an industry association for women who work in the hedge fund

Hedge fund

A hedge fund is a private pool of capital actively managed by an investment adviser. Hedge funds are only open for investment to a limited number of accredited or qualified investors who meet criteria set by regulators. These investors can be institutions, such as pension funds, university...

 industry. Actual membership comprises more than 10,000 women active on 3 continents.
The organization has been a vanguard in working for a world in which women get an equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity, or equality of opportunity, is a controversial political concept; and an important informal decision-making standard without a precise definition involving fair choices within the public sphere...

 in the highly competitive world of Hedge Funds.

The founders of the organization include Carol Kim, Dana Hall and Sarah Dyer. Other notable people associated with the organization include: Jacki Zehner

Jacki Zehner

Jacki Zehner was in 1996 the youngest woman and first female trader to be invited into the partnership of Goldman Sachs. Most of her career at Goldman was in mortgage-backed trading, followed by two years spent in the Executive Office working in human capital management...

, Jane Buchan and Amanda Pullinger

Amanda Pullinger

Amanda Pullinger is the Executive Director of 100 Women in Hedge Funds which she joined in 2003. Pullinger has lead the organization in its growth from one chapter in New York with a few hundred members to more than 10,000 members in 14 cities. In 2009, she succeeded in bringing in Britain’s...

 who is the Executive Director.

Annual Gala Dinner

Every year, 100 Women in Hedge Funds holds a Gala Dinner at which they honour a woman who has played a leading role in the Hedge Fund industry, as well as someone who has made a difference in the world of philanthropy.

Past industry leadership awards have gone to: Geraldine Sundstrom (London, 2010), Dorothy Weaver(New York, 2010), and Sonia Gardner (London, 2008).
Past effecting change awards have gone to: T. Boone Pickens (2010), Joel Klein

Joel Klein

Joel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...

 (2009), Ken Langone (2008), Julian Robertson

Julian Robertson

Julian H. Robertson Jr., KNZM is an American former hedge fund manager. Now retired, Robertson invests directly in other hedge funds, most run by former employees of Robertson's defunct hedge fund company....

 (2007) and Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn is an American business magnate and investor.-Biography:Icahn was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, where he attended Far Rockaway High School. His father was a cantor, his mother was a schoolteacher...

 (2006)

In 2010, Prince William of Wales

Prince William of Wales

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge KG , is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

 became the Patron of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. On October 16, 2011, Prince William attended a Charity Gala at St. James's Palace to raise money for the Child Bereavement Charity.
In 2011, the organization raised $2 million for the Clinton Foundation

Clinton Foundation

The William J. Clinton Foundation is a foundation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." The Foundation focuses on four critical areas:...

, which was presented to Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

in person at the New York Gala Dinner.