Lawrence Gosling speaks to Old Mutual Wealth's responsible business director Jane Goodland, one of the judges for Investment Week's Women in Investment Awards, about improving diversity and the importance of financial education.
If the fund management industry has a problem with public perception, then one of the issues it should be looking at closely is its record when it comes to gender and diversity. As a survey published by Morningstar this time last year made clear, the asset management industry globally is way behind other sectors. Across 56 countries, the survey found only one in five funds has a female manager. Worse, in the eight-year timeframe of the survey, women have not made any sizeable gains. Specifically, the survey found only 13% of fund managers in the UK were women and only 20% of certi...
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