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Hedge Funds Fail to Elevate Black Employees to Senior Roles

While leading banks and private equity firms had vowed to do more to increase the number of black employees to senior roles after the police killing of George Floyd in May, hedge funds have not been as vocal about doing the same. So reports Reuters.

diversity hand 1917895 640Hedge funds for the most part are small firms that tap their talent from the banking industry. Therefore, their relatively limited talent pool makes it tough to increase diversity within their senior ranks, they say. 

Regulatory U.S. data from 2019 shows that just 8.9% of hedge fund firms were run by ethnic minorities, including Latinos, Blacks, Asians and Native Americans. “I’d like to see more Black faces in different areas across the hedge fund and asset management community,” says Ansumana Bai-Marrow, chief compliance officer at Cairn Capital. “I don’t see any Black money managers, people making investment decisions, or Black salespeople.”

But Floyd’s killing has prompted big time hedge fund investors, including U.S. pension funds, to inquire about diversity, hedge fund industry consultants note. “In the past, maybe 5% of our clients would engage us on this, now it’s more like a quarter,” says Chris Redmond, head of manager research at consultancy Willis Towers Watson. “Investors are asking who is on our list of hedge funds who have had good racial and gender diversity.”

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