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Our culture and values
We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion where all employees
succeed based on merit and every employee fully contributes to our clients’
success. Respecting each person’s background and life experiences results in our
ability to make better investment decisions and achieve stronger outcomes.
Excellence guides how we deliver superior
performance for our clients, fueled by
a collaborative spirit and the drive to
continually exceed.
Focus characterizes how we operate, using a
disciplined investment approach that leverages
our history of specialization to deliver total returns,
outperformance, income and diversification.
Innovation is how we advance, forged
by continuous improvement to build
investment solutions that provide longterm results.
Inclusion defines how we foster teamwork and
engage with clients, with an entrepreneurial
culture that welcomes new ideas and
varied perspectives.
Our four pillars of diversity and inclusion
Education
We instill a respect and appreciation for diversity by demonstrating why inclusion matters, informing
all associates of our expectations and promoting cultural competency. Unconscious bias education,
discussion forums and training are critical to these efforts. Just as important, we celebrate diversity,
not only during heritage months or notable events, but every day of the year.
Leadership
We hold our leaders accountable for fostering an inclusive workplace by measuring their performance
against tangible expectations for building an inclusive firm. Among our key new initiatives: Our D&I
dashboard measures our progress. All performance reviews of our teams require inclusion as an
objective. And our Executive Committee now sponsors several employee resource groups to provide
peer-to-peer support and foster candid discussions about the additional progress we need to make.
Recruitment
We are increasing the diversity of our teams through several initiatives to support the recruitment of
diverse candidates and summer associates. This includes enhancing our internship programs, working
with external partners, and improving internal manager training and candidate experience. We
recognize that our firm, as well as our industry more widely, needs to address the underrepresentation
of women and people of color, especially in leadership positions.
Engagement
We rely on strong and empowered employee resource groups to accelerate our many diversity and
inclusion efforts. Our Diversity Alliance and Women’s Exchange have built internal networks for
associates to come together, support diverse talent and hold leaders accountable. We also engage
with employees to ensure we have supplier diversity through minority-owned brokerage firms.
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