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News from the Emerging Manager space.
Technology platform DFD Partners and The Center of Innovation for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Finance have formed a distribution partnership that will allow three approved asset managers to utilize DFD services at no cost for one year.
Russell Mason, founder of the Investment Management Institute, died on Dec. 20 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer, the organization announced.
Multi-boutique manager platform Spouting Rock Asset Management has acquired Stewart Asset Management, a spokeswoman confirmed, in an e-mail.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment met on Dec. 13 to hold a hearing on “Examining How Capital Markets Serve Diverse Entrepreneurs and Investors.”
The $11.5 billion Public School Teachers’ Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago invested $5.5 billion, or 48% of total fund assets, with minority-, women- and disadvantaged-owned business enterprise firms in fiscal year 2022.
By Shannon O’Leary, CIO at Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Foundations continue to increase their investments with diverse-owned firms while peeling back the curtain and providing greater transparency on their portfolios, according to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Diversity of Asset Managers Research Series: Philanthropy.
In collaboration with IDiF, Emerging Manager Monthly will be donating 10% of proceeds from new manager subscriptions through the month of January to IDiF.
VoLo Earth Ventures, an emerging venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech companies, has closed its inaugural fund above its fundraising target, a spokeswoman confirmed.
Outsourced cio Appomattox Advisory has hired Caroline Lovelace as coo, a spokeswoman confirmed.
This month, we have our annual feature on military veterans in the asset management industry.