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Morgan Stanley has been at the forefront of publishing data-backed research and offering actionable recommendations to address the systemic inequities within the financial services industry, including identifying the “Trillion-Dollar Blind Spot” that women and multicultural-owned businesses face.
To complement our research around investors’ and venture capitalists’ views and approaches around diversity, this year we surveyed asset owners—investment decision-makers at large U.S. pension funds, endowments, foundations and insurance companies—to better understand their perspectives on the role of diversity in their investment decisions and choice of external managers.