{
  "id": 5045751,
  "title": "Women received just 7% of £5.4bn in carried interest last year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/women-received-just-7-of-5-4bn-in-carried-interest-last-year",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-02T08:03:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Private Equity Wire",
    "slug": "private-equity-wire",
    "url": "https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/women-received-just-7-of-5-4bn-in-carried-interest-last-year/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the latest financial year, women received only 6.8% of the £5.4bn in carried interest and other profit-share awards distributed to senior executives at private equity and hedge fund firms, according to an analysis of HMRC data by business advisers Lubbock Fine. Despite representing 20% of recipients, women only received £366m, or £495,000 on average, compared to men who took home £1.6bn. Business advisers noted that some private equity and hedge fund managers may have accelerated the crystallisation of gains to benefit from the lower tax rate of 32% the following year.",
  "summary": "Women received just £366m, or 6.8%, of the £5.4bn in carried interest and other profit-share awards paid to senior executives at private equity and hedge fund firms last year, according to analysis of HMRC data by business advisers and chartered accountants Lubbock Fine.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}