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(1 min read) The CFA Institute recently announced it is recommending a diversity, equity and inclusion protocol. The code and implementation guide, drafted by the CFA Institute Steering Committee and trade association Nicsa, will promote best practices and standardization for the asset management industry as it relates to DEI.

(2 min read) Diligend, a cloud-based due diligence software provider built for asset allocators, and eVestment announced today an agreement under which eVestment data will be available through the Diligend platform.

(1 min read) Meketa Investment Group, a member organization of the Institutional Investing Diversity Cooperative, recently published the findings of its first survey on diversity, equity and inclusion. Over 250 asset managers responded to the survey.

(8 min read) The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all many lessons. But there are lessons for markets, too. From the multiple studies that have come out of the COVID crisis, we can see the importance of diverse, healthy and liquid markets with readily available hedges and cheap trading.

(5 min read) Investors added an estimated $12.01 billion into hedge funds in May, lifting 2021 net inflow to $39.12 billion. Performance was accretive to asset levels and total estimated industry AUM increased to $3.570 trillion.

(1 min read) FundFire reports that 20% of asset management firms listed in eVestment are now voluntarily reporting diversity & inclusion information.

(7 min video) Lauren Dillard, EVP and Head of Nasdaq’s Investment Intelligence division which includes eVestment, recently joined Cheddar to talk about the exchange's diversity report from about 20 percent of the firms within eVestment's database.

(1 min read) While keeping rates unchanged, the focus for the Federal Open Market Committee meeting was on the shift in the Fed’s dot plot, a closely watched tool to signal changes in interest rates.

(2 min read) The Diversity Forum sessions addressed timely issues, including unconscious bias impacts on corporations and the residual effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human capital.

(3 min read) eVestment will make its asset manager diversity, equity and inclusion (D&I) data available for investors free of charge in an effort to improve transparency and standardization across the industry.