Team diversity impacts fundraising prospects - AVCJ Forum
Asia-based managers are slower to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies than their peers in other markets, but LPs told the AVCJ Diversity & Inclusion Forum that action on this issue is increasingly important to fundraising.
While there is a general awareness of the need for increased diversity within the industry, institutional investors are driving it up the agenda, noting that the presence of concrete policies on DEI factors...
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