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News from the Emerging Manager space.
Prime Buchholz’s DEI data and scoring system has helped it recommend more diverse managers to its institutional clients, however, furtherance remains as 31% of recommended firms were in the lowest scoring DEI cohorts.
The Diverse Asset Managers Initiative is calling on Securities and Exchange Commission commissioners to decline meetings with investment managers that do not fill out the agency’s diversity assessment report.
Black woman-led and employee-owned investment manager Xponance has hired Lisa Hinds as managing director of client engagement and sustainability, the firm announced.
V-Square Quantitative Management launched its first thematic exchange traded fund in December.
Sterling Capital Management and Truist Financial Corporation have launched a diverse multi-manager exchange traded fund, the firms announced.
Woman-owned investment manager Fairpointe Capital has closed.
Diverse-owned investment firms manage 1.4% of total U.S. assets under management, according to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, nearly identical to the figure from the organizations’ previous 2019 study.
Foundation boards are struggling to promote diversity among their members, according to a recent survey from Commonfund Institute and the Council on Foundations.
The Institutional Limited Partners Association released updated versions of its Due Diligence Questionnaire and Diversity Metrics Template last month.
The five-member U.S. value equity team from LMCG Investments has been spun out of the firm to create Leeward Investments, according to a client letter.
This month we have news on a university expressing interest in emerging private equity and venture capital firms.