Narrowing the Gap: Why Long-Term Investors and Corporate Leaders Should View Addressing Economic Inequality and Improving Diversity as Critical Forms of Risk Management

From Ariel Investments: This paper is designed to help investors understand the urgent need to address economic inequality and provide corporate leadership teams practical steps to drive change within their companies and for society at large. Drawing on Ariel Investment’s work with the Black Corporate Directors Conference, the authors outline actions relating to people, purchasing, and philanthropy that companies can take to leverage corporate influence.

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A Framework for Inclusive Investing: Driving Stock Market Participation to Close the Wealth Gap for Women of Color

From Commonwealth: A new, unified analytical framework for understanding the barriers holistically and articulating how the nation’s public, private, and social sectors can use this framework to pursue promising actions to help narrow the nation’s wealth gaps

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