As the false Twitter report first spread, a staffer at Los Angeles-based JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC said over a companywide loudspeaker: "Careful, those things can be hacked, " said Tom Carter, a managing director at the brokerage.

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In the US, while quotas are not being considered to resolve this problem, some institutional investors are pushing for a market-based solution through engagement and shareholder proposals seeking greater gender and ethnic diversity on boards.

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Jules Maltz is a Principal at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park.

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Other forecasters, such as the Washington-based Institute of International Finance, which represents banks and other institutional investors, also expect private capital flows in 1999 to remain close to their levels of 1998.

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Most recently, Asim served as Director of the Urban Health Initiative at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he directed a key institutional initiative to improve health outcomes through strategic partnerships and lead several Medical Center departments and community partners to implement community-based models of practice.

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