An article published by the Financial Times (subscription required) reports that the hedge funds led by women have outperformed a broader benchmark of alternative investment managers over the past five years, raising the question of why there are still so few female portfolio managers.

Mobility companies’ expenditure will continue to increase throughout the year. It will reach a 2.6% increase, or $1.57 trillion for hardware, software and mobile services purchases, according to IDC calculations published by Silicon.

In Paraguay, smartphone penetration has reached more than 76% of the population, according to the Latin American Mobile Economy Index. This opened up a world of possibilities for financial inclusion, La Nación reports.

BBVA launches the sixth edition of its social entrepreneurship support program, which from now on will be global – it will be developed in Spain, the United States, Mexico, Turkey and Colombia –, will offer support to more companies and will adjust better to the reality of social entrepreneurs. BBVA Momentum channels its support through five initiatives: a training program; a strategic mentoring program; a network of entrepreneurs, customers and investors; collaboration to provide visibility to the companies; and, finally, funding.

Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day, a celebration that dates back to 1911. The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in some European countries to protest women’s working conditions.  In 1977, the UN General Assembly declared that March 8th would be the International Day for Women’s Rights and World Peace.

British researchers have discovered more than 287 different genes that could hold the answer to baldness. A team from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine analyzed the DNA of more than 52,000 men between the ages of 40 and 60 to predict the risk of baldness in each individual.  One of the main conclusions from the study is that the maternal genome is the key to hair loss.