Promoting Racial & Gender Equity in Investing
The Center is challenging investment practices that create barriers for women and people of color.
Women and minority group members manage less than 2% of $80 trillion in assets under management in the U.S. Since 2017, the Center has been working to change common investment industry practices that create barriers for women and people of color, with a particular focus on asset management for university endowments.
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Knight Diversity of Asset Managers Research Series: Higher Education 2024
A new paper by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, Knight Foundation, and Global Economics Group examines how or if 50 of the wealthiest U.S. colleges and universities invest their endowment funds with diverse-owned asset management firms.
Knight Diversity of Asset Managers Research Series: Higher Education, Interim Release
An interim study on the degree to which the endowments of the country’s wealthiest private and public colleges and universities are hiring asset management firms owned by women and racial or ethnic minorities
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