Social Justice Investing With Adasina’s Rachel Freeman

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Social Justice Investing With Adasina’s Rachel Freeman

Sloane Ortel

Jul 06, 2021

This week we talk with Rachel Freeman, Adasina's director of investor services, about what it means to build a bridge between social justice organizations and the capital markets.

We also touch on issues like:

Ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment, which have historically been left out of the ESG equation.
Starting a new investment fund as a minority and queer-led firm.
Why Adasina decided to start an ETF instead of a data company.

After discussing the peculiar difficulties Adasina encountered when starting a new investment firm, Rachel mentioned some allocator-oriented suggestions to make their due diligence process less onerous for startup managers, which are available here: https://www.duediligencecommitment.com/

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Free Money with Sloane and Ashby

Most sane people have given up hope that the finance industry can be a catalyst for positive change, but not Sloane Ortel and Ashby Monk. Since Free Money launched in 2019, they have helped listeners understand the true power (and immense potential) of long-term investing through accessible, authoritative, and deeply irreverent conversations with others pushing for progress. In the process, they’ve helped literally dozens of listeners understand root causes of the industry’s misalignment with the modern world and radicalized them into pushing for positive change.

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