DE&I

Kara Helander and Anna Edwin discuss how they are building diversity, equity and inclusion within their firms, and how the racial justice movement and pandemic have generated momentum for sustained action.

Investors cannot afford to ignore a GP set that has largely outperformed industry benchmarks, even during a pandemic.

Women make up about one in four of senior investment professionals at Neuberger Berman, which employs 'concrete measures' on recruitment and retention.

Positive action from every investment firm will help address gender imbalance at the operating partner level, says Gail McManus PER’s founder and managing director.

The investment firm has stepped up its ESG goals and aims for 75% of portfolio company employees to benefit from a value sharing mechanism.

We take a look at how the Los Angeles pension’s programme to back diverse and minority-owned PE managers has performed and evolved over more than a decade.

Last year the French asset manager targeted 272 companies on the basis of gender diversity concerns, up 369% from the prior year.

The Institutional Limited Partners Association’s private equity diversity and inclusion roadmap is an open-source and online resource for LPs, GPs and industry practitioners.

LPs are becoming more diversity-conscious, but a lack of gender balance in investment teams is rarely a deal-breaker.

The survey results were discussed onstage at PEI's CFOs & COOs conference in New York on Wednesday.