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Minority-Owned Private-Equity Firms Drive Higher Rates of Return

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A study by the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) found that the funds managed by its member firms (79% of which are owned by minorities and 69% of which have women or minorities in at least half of the investment roles) had a median net internal rate of return of 15% from 1998-2011.

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Iridius Capital Is Headed Back To The Office ? Founder And CIO G.S. Jaggi Shares How And Why

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Jaggi and Iridius Capital invests in real estate across all major real estate asset classes and has acquired or developed $1.5B of real estate since 2011, giving their team a front-row […]. Jaggi, known as “Jaggi”, is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Iridius Capital, a real estate firm based in Tucson, Arizona.

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How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy

Harvard Business Review

Eccles, a mathematician by training and one of the foremost experts in corporate reporting, has for the past five years been working to create sustainability accounting standards for the investment community (he is also the chairman of ESG asset management firm Arabesque Partners). It’s been slow going.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." Which makes sense — most asset managers have a shared interest with CEOs in keeping top-of-the-scale paychecks high.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. An IT director was suspected of taking them. billion in damages.