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UK lawmaker ‘aggressively pushing’ for hedge funds to stamp out ‘boys’ club’

Hedge funds ‘understand that it’s time for change, and I haven’t heard any negativity’, says Labour MP Taiwo Owatemi

UK lawmaker ‘aggressively pushing’ for hedge funds to stamp out ‘boys’ club’
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London’s largest hedge funds are set to be quizzed on their plans to diversify their workforce, as the chair of a parliamentary group covering the alternative investments sector mulls plans to compel funds to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

Taiwo Owatemi, a Labour MP, told Financial News that she aims to launch a diversity charter for the alternative investments sector “in the new year”.

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