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Emerging and diverse managers can find success even when their path to gathering assets may be riddled with obstacles, according to three female founders of firms partnered with the New York State Common Retirement Fund during its 15th annual Emerging Manager & MWBE Conference held virtually on Feb. 16.
Investment consulting firms are still predominantly led and staffed by white males, an updated survey shows.
Commonfund completed its third annual Diverse Manager Day event on Feb. 10-11 after successfully adding 48 minority- or women-owned managers to its Diverse Manager Database last year.
This month we launch a new feature in partnership with performance analytics tool Aapryl that aims to bring more actionable insights to managers on how their performance stacks up to the universe broadly and the emerging and diverse manager space specifically.
Historically Black colleges and universities, typically limited by the size of their assets, are looking to gain further access to alternative assets as they seek to grow their endowments to further their mission as well as capture outsized returns that have swelled higher education institutions’ portfolios.
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.
Finalists were selected in the following categories: U.S. small-cap equity, large-cap equity and smid-cap/mid-cap equity, international equity, international small-cap equity, emerging markets equity and U.S. core fixed-income. Winners will be announced in the April 6 issue of Emerging Manager Monthly.
Stanford Management Company, the investment management arm of Stanford University, will allocate capital to a new program targeting investment in diverse asset managers.
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