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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International Women’s Day: Has the City broken its glass ceiling?
Take FN's Women in the City survey now
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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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Goldman Sachs erases diversity targets from annual filing
Wall Street bank joins rivals in diluting DEI policies
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Barclays, Rathbones, Jupiter lag FTSE peers on women’s leadership roles
Only 11 London-listed banks and asset managers had 40% women on their executive committees
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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?
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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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