Diversity

Sophie Kennedy: ‘Becoming CEO of a wealth manager at 33 didn’t faze me’

The co-CEO of EQ Investors has weathered Trump and the ESG backlash. Now comes another challenge as its founder considers selling the business

    Schroders, RLAM set to pressure boards over axed diversity pledges

    Fund giants could vote against executives who have rolled back their DEI promises

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    Top UK banks show slow progress on improving gender pay gap

    UK investment banks have closed the gender pay gap slightly, but big bonuses means change is slow

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    ‘Salomon Sister’ Anne Clarke Wolff: Diversity is worse now than in the 1990s

    The investment bank created to shake-up the stale, male world of dealmaking is facing a shifting political environment pushing back against diversity

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    Meet the top women in European fund management

    FN's inaugural Twenty Most Influential in Fund Management list includes eight senior women, including the CEOs of Amundi, BNY Mellon Investment Management and Fidelity International

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    Barclays CEO says diversity commitment ‘unwavering’ amid pressure from US government

    Large investment banks have so far resisted pressure to dial back on diversity targets

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    Goldman Sachs axes IPO diversity pledge

    Corporate DE&I policies have come under pressure following Donald Trump’s return to the White House

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    DWS whistleblower: Diversity has ‘brainwashed’ UK executives

    Desiree Fixler, who sits on the Financial Conduct Authority’s ESG advisory committee, says financial pressure will force firms to revisit policies

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    Accenture axes diversity and inclusion goals 

    The move comes as DEI initiatives in the City continue to be scaled down

    Will the anti-diversity movement derail women in the City?

    Take Financial News’s Women in the City survey and have your say

    UBS chief says ‘nothing has changed’ on diversity initiatives despite US pressure

    Bank executives have so far pushed back on calls to roll back DEI programmes

    ICG hires HSBC director as diversity head

    London-listed private equity firm taps Biral Joshi to newly created culture and inclusion role amid anti-woke backlash

    Trump attack on DEI programmes should prompt robust City rethink

    UK firms should change their failing approach to diversity, but not their overall aims

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    Take Financial News’s Women in the City 2025 survey now

    Have things become better for female professionals? Or has DEI fallen off the corporate agenda?

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    FCA urged to revive stalled diversity push: ‘We’re definitely not where we need to be’

    More than a year since its consultation on diversity and inclusion in financial services closed, the regulator is being pressed to take action

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    Financial News journalists win big at Aviva Investors media awards

    Shruti Tripathi Chopra, Justin Cash and Kristen McGachey lauded for their work

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    City firms’ diversity drives fall victim to cost cutting, survey finds

    Diversity programmes set up in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020 are being hit with funding cuts and job losses, according to the latest Reboot survey

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