In 2024, the Diversity Project invited academics from around the world to submit research proposals to explore any linkage between cognitive diversity and investment team performance. We stressed that we wanted to know what the evidence showed, not work backwards from any conclusion we might hope to see.
We defined cognitive diversity as the range of expertise, experience, perspectives, preferences, traits and ways of thinking within a team.
Watch Stephanie Niven, Portfolio Manager, Ninety One at Artemis and Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance and London Business School and the author of books such as “Grow the Pie” and “May Contain Lies” in this recording, as they discussed the results of the research.
This event was open to Diversity Project Member firms only.
