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- Your Second Nature & IEN Teams

Equity in Practice: Integrating DE&I from Firm to Portfolio

There will not be a recording of this session.

In this workshop, we'll discuss how to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion practices throughout your organization - from organizational policies/procedures/culture straight through to business practices. Leaders from Global Endowment Management will talk about the evolution of DE&I at their firm, and we'll brainstorm as a group how to advance DE&I in our work.

Evidence – the business case for investing with a racial equity or diversity lens:

McKinsey: 10 year cost of racial wealth gap in America between $1 Trillion and $1.5 Trillion (Racial Equity)

Institutional Investor: VCs missing a trillion dollar opportunity (Diversity, Social and Racial Equity)

VCs lose trillions by bypassing diverse leaders (Diversity, Social and Racial Equity)

McKinsey Study: Delivering Through Diversity (Diversity)

FT: Investment Teams with more women or ethnic minorities outperform (Diversity, Social Equity)

Harvard Business School: The Other Diversity Dividend (Diversity)

Living Cities: Radical Collaboration for Black Wealth Creation (Racial Equity)

Stanford University: Race influences professional investors' financial judgments (Diversity, Racial Equity) – this one is particularly helpful in illustrating how standard investment practices may not adequately be meeting fiduciary duty hurdles

Knight Foundation: Diversifying Investments (Diversity, Racial and Social Equity)

Speakers

Pedro Henriques da Silva

Global Endowment Management

Pedro joined Global Endowment Management (GEM) in 2019, to support GEM's versatile impact investment work on behalf of mission-led institutional clients. Driven by impact, Pedro uses his experiences as a former educator, foundation in economics, and passion for positive investing... Read More →