Daryn Dodson

Founder and Managing Partner, Illumen Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dodson leads Illumen Capital, an impact fund-of-funds pairing capital allocation with research-backed bias-reduction coaching developed with Stanford SPARQ to drive returns and diversity. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Ben & Jerry's as Audit Committee Chair and previously advised the Calvert Funds' Special Equities Program.

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6 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Daryn argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported

Dodson: Allocators systematically discount Black fund managers with identical track records

“So we secretly tested a 180 asset allocators managing over a trillion dollars in capital and almost every situation that an asset allocator looked at a high performing black lead fund and a high performing white lead fund. When they looked at these two cases, …”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 26:25 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

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What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Daryn Dodson said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Dodson: Allocators cannot fulfill fiduciary duty without bias reduction

“And that mirror is asking folks to be accountable to the optimization and fiduciary duty that they've signed up for and realize that without bias reduction, that is not being met, and there needs to be a big investment in innovation and getting these tools rig…”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 50:07 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Supported

Dodson: Allocators systematically discount Black fund managers with identical track records

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 26:25 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Dodson: Eliminating race and gender bias unlocks a $35 trillion opportunity

“Because there's a 35 trillion dollar opportunity on the other side of getting this stuff right, we believe that it is like those we've partnered with an essential process to one, yeah, make our world a better place, but two, to certainly compete out these retu…”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 46:59 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Insight

Dodson: Soft-pedaling feedback to diverse employees stalls their career growth

“One of the common mistakes that people make in mentoring women and people of color oftentimes is that in their organization will during a performance review go easier or not. They're like, well, this person's really experienced a lot of pain in their life. The…”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 47:50 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Supported

Dodson: Anti-predatory lending reforms generated $9.1B in annual consumer savings

“That was powerful to have opportunity to work with 60 attorneys on trying to develop statewide frameworks of which we passed a number of them in 2002 to 2005 to stop that to the tune of 9.1 billion dollars a year in savings for those that were overcharged in t…”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 13:15 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Supported

Dodson: Diverse managers oversee only 1.3% of $69 trillion in assets

“Asset management is 1.3% Of 69 trillion dollars in capital that are managed by one of the largest demographics of folks on the planet being women and people of color.”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 20:17 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Insight

Dodson: Racial bias by fund managers explains the underrepresentation of Black-led companies

“Many fund managers that are looking for companies likely also make that same discounting Within the process of their selection, which helps us understand why Black-led companies are so underrepresented, even despite performance.”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 27:45 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Opinion

Dodson: Historical racial terror shaped current imbalances in asset management

“When we look at the through line between slavery, the periods of racial terror in our country, lynching, mass incarceration, all of those different time periods have fingerprints on the current imbalance in the asset management business today.”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 29:43 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Supported

Dodson: Black boys are expelled at 4x the rate of white peers

“Black boys are over it spelled by four X the rate of their white counterparts.”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 6:56 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Insight

Dodson: Homeownership provides essential leverage for launching businesses out of poverty

“The barriers to creating businesses are enormous. And I thought businesses are one of the ways people can break the cycle of poverty. So is home ownership. And there's a big tie between the two. So if you can create a home or buy a home, you can leverage that …”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 12:29 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Assertion Partly supported

Dodson: Ben & Jerry's sale to Unilever included 92 binding social mission covenants

“And in the sale, there were a 92 legally binding provisions in the sales agreement, including one that created a board of directors in perpetuity to govern the social economic and quality missions of the company.”

Daryn Dodson Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 52:04 Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Cap	Dec 14, 2020	48m

Daryn Dodson

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