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Industry Leaders Round Table
We recently had the pleasure of hosting industry leaders from Ninety One, Legal and General, Vanguard, Generation, Wellington, Barings and Schroders and observing the Chatham House Rules had a great discussion surrounding: The future of the City Clients wanting more ESG Product Development Transformation Is D&I stalling? It was a brilliant and engaging evening with lots…
Read MoreWomen in Finance Charter
At Leverton we believe that diversity is the key to any successful business. In March 2021 we signed the Women in Finance Charter, this is sponsored by HM Treasury and is a pledge for gender balance across financial services. When we signed the charter we had 100% females in senior management roles and our aim…
Read MoreFT Article: Sustainable investing boom prompts fierce fight for talent
Managing Director Rachael Ferguson shares her insights into the ESG job market with the FT: “I’ve never seen it so intense, and it has been like this for the past 18 months. ESG used to be a small part of what we do; since September, it’s taken up a huge amount of our time,” Read…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day 2022
This International Women’s Day the Leverton Team spent the day at Ninety One to focus on social diversity and introduce Investment Management as a career path to female 6th form students. We gave them interview advice and ran a CV Writing workshop. It was brilliant to work with such enthusiastic young women and it is…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – February 2022
February always seems to pass by so quickly; I feel like I’ve blinked and suddenly it’s March! March is a significant month in the IMPACT calendar as it marks International Women’s Day – we would love to hear what your firms are doing in order to celebrate. This year the Leverton Team will be spending…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – January 2022
Happy New Year! I hope you’re well and have managed to have a Covid free Christmas, though speaking to clients and candidates it seems to be 50/50. Over the final months of 2021 we polled over 1000 people (1,217 in total) in the industry. We wanted to take the temperature of how priorities had changed…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – November 2021
It has been another busy month for Leverton and IMPACT and I can’t quite believe the Christmas period is very nearly upon us! I hope you enjoy reading my pick of articles from the month below! Working from home; worry about it damaging your career and how to negate? This is a huge topic and…
Read MoreIMPACT & Capital Group’s Virtual Event on Self Advocacy
We had a great session this morning with Capital Group’s European Women’s Community. We heard from Alexandra Haggard on how she had perfected speaking up and being heard. If you would like to join our future events focusing on gender diversity within Investment Management, please do get in touch. Rachael.Ferguson@levertonsearch.com Here are our top takeaways:…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – September 2021
This week is National Inclusion Week and October is Global Diversity Awareness month, we thought in this month’s newsletter we would share with you key takeaways for you and your networks. Last week we attended the NLI Diversity & Inclusion Webinar, focusing on ‘active inclusion’. If you are not actively including, you are probably…
Read MoreWebinar with Dr Hannah Barham-Brown, Deputy Leader, Women’s Equality Party
Yesterday we had an engaging and insightful discussion with the wonderful Dr Hannah Barham-Brown. Dr Hannah is a woman of many talents and wears a variety of professional hats – she is a GP, Deputy Leader of women’s equality party, a disability consultant, a speaker, charity ambassador and an ambassador for the UK design…
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