Malik Murray, Ariel exec and former St. Ignatius and Blue Demon basketball player, dies at 50

Chicago native Malik T. Murray was a longtime executive at Chicago-based Ariel Investments. He served on the board of trustees of DePaul University, where he had played Division I basketball, and he was on the board of directors for St. Ignatius College Prep. Murray oversaw Ariel’s fundraising efforts for its investment strategies as the company’s head of business development. “Everyone just loved Malik. He was extremely generous,” said Ariel’s founder, chairman and co-CEO John W. Rogers Jr. “He always had time for everyone, and was never too busy to talk...