Investors and corporate leaders are increasingly recognising the value of diversity as a driver of financial performance over the long term.
Recent events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and visible examples of police violence against black people, have heightened public concern about racial equity, especially among young workers. Because diversity is considered by many to be material to company performance, investors require consistent, comparable and complete information about diversity performance. FTSE 100 boards falling short on ethnic diversity transparency standards However, we as investors often lack the information that we need to evaluate corporate diversity performance as a material issue for our investmen...
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