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“African American business owners have on average about one seventh of the equity in their businesses of their white male counterparts.”

“One of the counterintuitive things in private markets is I have invested a fair amount with emerging managers. Now, the irony is empirically, it says it makes sense. Like on average, even though they have a lot less in the way of assets, they outperform, but i…”

“When we look at markets like venture capital, and you say less than two percent of that capital is allocated to women in diverse-owned firms, but women and ethnically diverse people make up 70% of the population in expanding, that's a huge disconnect.”

“Because even if you think about impact investing, a lot of the emphasis in dollars globally Have really focused on the environmental side of the equation and not as much on the social impact side.”

“If you look at the private markets, most of that focus is on the upper end of the middle market. And so you have these incredible businesses, Ted, I mean, 3040, fifty million dollars in revenue, great business plans, great growth potential who have trouble get…”

“And by the way, if you also have an interest in focusing on economic inclusion, You're going to have a higher percentage of those firms be actually diverse, owned, or led on a relative basis.”

“I found two instances where we had extraordinarily talented Female candidates come in interviewing our firm, and we have a reasonable amount of gender diversity. Not one single person on their interview schedule was a woman.”

“If I look at Blacks, we make up 13% or so, depending on when the last time you did the census of the population, 13, 14%, that make up the same percentage of drug users. But we make up 36% of arrest for drug conviction and 46% of drug convictions.”

“I mean, we got to the point of our 1.3 trillion at the time in assets, we had a hundred and seventy billion just dedicated. To a different sustainable investing strategies.”

“Women start firms at a significantly faster rate than their male counterparts. Women now make up nearly 60% of the college graduates in our country.”

“Companies with revenue from five million to a hundred million in the US are about 95,000 companies.”

“I think on our, the one trading floor that I worked on, there were approximately 600 professionals. My rough recollection was there were no more than counting me, I believe, five African Americans on the whole floor. And I think there were only to my best reco…”

“When I joined the asset management executive leadership team which was back in 2008, it was not a particularly diverse team. As a matter of fact, there was one gentleman who was an African American who moved to a different part of the organization when I joine…”

“Like, so if you look at our team today, we've got a leadership team with 15 people on it. Nine of the members of our team are either women or ethnically diverse. So, you know, we have six people who are ethnically diverse. We have six women. Some of that overl…”