article_snippet: Companies run by women performed almost three times as well than those run by men, according to a new study.
article_snippet: Cash invested only in Fortune 1000 stocks from companies with female CEOs had a return of 348 per cent over the past 12 years, researchers found.
article_snippet: Bringing home the bacon: A study found that Fortune 1000 companies with female CEOs produced returns of 348 per cent from 2002 to 2014, as shown in green on the graph above.
article_snippet: the women's fund would hold stocks by all Fortune 1000 companies with female CEOs for as long as the woman was at the head of the company.
article_snippet: It would sell the stock whenever a woman left the top spot, and buy in to new companies which appointed women.
article_snippet: Fewer than one in 20 major companies currently has a female CEO.
article_snippet: There is no definitive explanation for why female CEOs apparently bring in so much more cash for investors.
article_snippet: It has been suggested that typically female personality traits make for better corporate leaders.
article_snippet: However, it has also been suggested that female leaders can feel pressure more than male counterparts.
article_snippet: Mindy Grossman, one of the best-performing female CEOs of recent times, told Forbes that high-powered women are more at risk of burning out, too.
article_snippet: Karen Rubin, who helped build the simulation, said her believes the results are because of the so-called 'glass ceiling' holding women back from big jobs.
article_snippet: The result, her said, is that any women who wants to lead a huge company must be extremely competent - and so good financial performance follows.
article_snippet: her told Fortune: 'There’s a lot of the theorizing around why the results are dramatically higher for the women, but most think the results has to do with how hard women have to work to become CEO at such big companies in the first place'.
article_snippet: However, the results has also been theorized that the results are also affected by the types of companies women have typically led - media, retail and consumer organizations - which benefited greatly in the recent economic upturn.
highlights_snippet: Finance technology company plotted how companies with female CEOs performed from 2002 to 2014 .
  
highlights_snippet: Imagined $100,000 was invested in Fortune 1000 companies led by women, vs performance of S&P500 index .
  
highlights_snippet: Expert who ran experiment suggested results are because only most competent women make CEO .