Just do something! How impact investors can move past silence and tokenism on racial injustice

Amir Rizwan

Investors have lent their weight to campaigns against social injustices such as homelessness, domestic abuse or economic inequality. So why the silence, until recently, on racial injustice? The co-chair of the UK’s Diversity Forum, which aims to make social investment more inclusive – and whose manifesto has attracted just a handful of signatories to date – warns against tokenism, and sets out a few concrete ways the sector can put its money where its mouth is.