Alternatives
Evelysse Vargas has joined Zeal Capital Partners as a senior consultant, the venture capital firm announced.
Base10 Partners has closed a new $460 million early-stage fund, bringing the Black-led venture capital firm’s total assets under management beyond $1 billion, the firm announced.
The Institutional Investing Diversity Cooperative has announced its endorsement of the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s Diversity Metrics Template for gathering diversity data from private equity managers.
When it comes to gender balance in the alternatives industry, progress is “hard to cheer about” as figures are increasing for women in junior positions, while the number of women in senior positions “drops off significantly,” according to a recent Preqin report.
Gloria Nelund was ready to retire. After serving as ceo of the U.S. private wealth management division at Deutsche Bank following a career that had included time as managing director of Scudder Kemper Investments and as ceo of BofA Capital Management, she was ready to give back.
NOEMIS Ventures has closed its first fund with $25 million in total commitments.
Black-owned early-stage venture capital firm Wilshire Lane Capital announced the first close of its debut fund with $40 million in commitments.
GCM Grosvenor raised $1.5 billion for diverse manager investment mandates in 2021, the firm announced.
Toni Hackett Antrum’s community and economic development experience over her 30-year career in the public fund investment space led her to launch a private equity racial justice impact fund in the fourth quarter.
The women- and minority-owned private equity firm universe expanded to more than 600 firms at the end of 2021, a 25% increase from the end of 2020, according to an annual report from private equity fund-of-funds Fairview Capital Partners.
New York City Retirement Systems newest report details investments with diverse and emerging managers.