Armchair Critic: Six ways diversity will help your business

Consider legal, ethical and commercial dimensions

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As Professional Adviser launches the inaugural Women in Financial Advice Awards, our Armchair Critic Brendan Llewellyn looks at why diversity matters and how an employer should look to embrace it

In common with many industries, the financial sector is lacking in diversity but why exactly does diversity matter and how should an employer look to embrace it? There are arguably three dimensions to any consideration of those questions - legal, ethical and commercial. On the first point, labour law legislation makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of ‘protected characteristics' - that is, age, gender, disability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion and sexual orientation. This legislation does not require a...

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