City Hive hires ex-Principal sales director Glendon to boost signatories
City Hive’s Stewardship Council are targeting 50 ACT signatories
Diversity and Inclusion
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Reboot: Over a quarter of employees report elimination of diversity-focused role in past two years
70% described leadership as ‘actively resistant’ to ethnic and racial diversity initiatives
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Investment firms broaden demographics data collection to foster an inclusive culture
Number of women in the industry increases but female representation in the 50-64 age bracket declined, according to inclusion report
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Diversity Project hires Edmans to re-examine the ‘business case for diversity’
Professor Alex Edmans will lead study into whether diversity of viewpoint and experience improves investment performance
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City Hive relaunches mentoring programme with EnCircle
Federated Hermes and WHEB have confirmed sponsorship for the 2025 mentoring programme
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Women could add $3.2trn to markets in ‘wealth boom’ – if investment industry wasn’t complacent
Female investors could up financial service revenues by $700bn, but wealth managers are overlooking this untapped demographic
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Mainstreaming gender-lens investing in the private sector
Private market investors are realising the potential to ‘unlock social and financial change’ in the various approaches to gender-lens investing
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98% of financial services employees consider culture when choosing an employer
However research by Everyone Matters shows fostering diversity of thought is falling behind at firms
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Why the industry’s efforts to embrace diversity keep falling short
Davies’ Abi Chamberlain discusses how the industry can ask the right questions and use data to drive change
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Over half of private equity firms rated ‘excellent’ on ESG
LGT Capital Partners found ‘significant progress’ had been made
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Are investment trust boards making progress on diversity?
The AIC’s Annabel Brodie-Smith explains how the availability of data on ethnic diversity on investment trust boards is ‘an important step’
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ESG Out Loud: Finding a sweet spot that aligns business with emerging social interests is one of the hardest things to do
Climate adviser to Al Gore and Bill Clinton shares his action points for business and wealth management