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Supply chain & vendor DEI 

Due diligence, data collection & recruitment

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June 6, 12pm ET

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Agenda

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As NAREIM members - and the world - track and monitor diversity, equity and inclusion metrics, attention is turning to the supply chain and vendor diversity. Not least from your institutional investors.

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As LPs ask more questions relating to vendor diversity and how managers are tracking it - NAREIM members asked to come together to share insights and best practices covering what data is being collected by GPs, how due diligence processes are adapting in light of LP DDQs and examples of successes in increasing diversity among vendors/service providers.

 

 

• 12pm: Welcome comments

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• 12.05pm: Review of the NAREIM member survey on vendor due diligence

  • The Survey was launched in April to collect investment manager information relating to vendor DEI data collection, technology solutions, due diligence processes and how managers are recruiting and retaining diverse suppliers. Members will also be able to access the NAREIM repository of LP DDQs on supply chain and vendor-diversity.

  • To participate in the Survey, please click here. (Note, we ask only investment managers to participate in the Survey).

 

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• 12.20pm: Vendor due diligence process - what is changing and what is having an impact?

  • Whole room conversation led by Vadim Blikshteyn, CFO, Torchlight Investors and Michele Kelly, Corporate Social Responsibility, Torchlight Investors:

    • MWDBE vendor selection and due diligence practices

    • What is changing? What is working - and not working?

    • Data collection challenges. Where are you having challenges collecting MWDBE vendor data? How are you communicating those challenges?

    • Open time for member questions

 

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• 1pm: End of virtual meeting