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News from the Emerging Manager space.
Emerging Manager Monthly has launched a new directory of diverse asset managers.
The investment consulting firm has hired a senior investment director for sustainable and impact investing research from a public pension fund.
Two foundations have partnered with Lenox Park Solutions to survey and assess the racial and gender diversity makeup of the U.S. asset management firms that invest their combined $10.8 billion in investments
Ryan Brown, founder and managing partner of private equity firm Patriot Investment Partners, applies his time as a firefighter in the U.S. Air Force as he looks for opportunities.
It was difficult for anyone to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic that has put a damper on a majority of 2020, yet veterans — trained to prepare for anything — were able to use their service and training experience to weather the storm.
Recently obtained university responses detailing the diversity of their endowments to an inquiry from two congressmen in the third quarter show they have built a strong baseline of investing in women- and minority-owned investment managers.
Diverse-owned investment firms managed a range of 5.1% to 35% for the 24 endowments responding to inquiries from Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), according to a report released last month.
Yale University CIO David Swensen has sent a letter to the investment managers in its approximately $31.2 billion endowment asking them to cooperate in “taking a more systematic approach to the problem of the lack of women and minorities in the asset management industry.”
Healthcare organizations must focus on creating a defined and goal-oriented approach to addressing diversity within their investment portfolios, according to a recent NEPC webinar.
This month we have news on a university expressing interest in emerging private equity and venture capital firms.