PRINCO modifies diversity diligence to focus on manager recruiting pipelines
Jen Birmingham · Jenn Birmingham – Organizational Alpha at PRINCO (EP. 336) · Sep 4, 2023 · at 47:55
Jen Birmingham, Managing Director at PRINCO, explains how the endowment evaluates external asset managers on diversity.
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“We modified it to actually really gauge not only where managers stand in terms of their diversity, but also what we call the faucet, because that's where we feel the biggest impact's going to be.”
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