A generational change: Ethnic minorities in financial services

Hannah Godfrey
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Postcard Planning and NextGen Planners’ Rohan Sivajoti talks to Hannah Godfrey about how his experience in financial services as an ethnic minority differs from his fathers’, who worked in the sector some 40 years ago...

Rohan Sivajoti is 33, the son of a Sri Lankan immigrant father and English mother. Like his father, Rohan has forged a successful career in financial services and can already count co-founding his own firm and a company directorship among his achievements.  Rohan's father came to the UK on a boat from Sri Lanka in 1966 when he was just nine years old. When Sivajoti Sr was old enough to work, he had between three and four different jobs at the same time to support his family, one of which was as a motor insurance clerk for insurance company Guardian Royal Exchange, which was later bought ...

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