{"id":62826,"date":"2018-03-18T00:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T04:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62826"},"modified":"2018-03-18T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:55:18","slug":"congressional-black-caucus-turns-to-asset-managers-for-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/congressional-black-caucus-turns-to-asset-managers-for-diversity.html","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Black Caucus Turns to Asset Managers for Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) The Congressional Black Caucus wants more African-Americans to sit on boards and in the C-suites of U.S. companies, and they\u2019re asking some of the financial industry\u2019s biggest lobby groups for help.The caucus, in a letter dated Wednesday, urged leaders at lobby groups for the mutual fund and hedge fund industries to encourage member firms to have \u201cfrank conversations\u201d about increasing black diversity with companies in which they invest. The caucus reasons that as shareholders, asset managers hold American companies accountable on a number of issues, and diversity should be no different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-15\/congressional-black-caucus-turns-to-asset-managers-for-diversity\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The Congressional Black Caucus wants more African-Americans to sit on boards and in the C-suites of U.S. companies, and they\u2019re asking some of the financial industry\u2019s biggest lobby groups for help.The caucus, in a letter dated Wednesday, urged leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62827,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62826\/revisions\/62827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}