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What is IMPACT?

IMPACT is a network created for high potential and high achieving females, within Investment Management.

Members all have a common thread; they are smart, ambitious and good company! We aim to help our members achieve career goals through training, workshops and creating supportive relationships. They leave each session feeling motivated and engaged with their peers, across different companies.

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News and latest events

International Women’s Day 2022

By levertonsearch | March 21, 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…

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IMPACT Newsletter – February 2022

By levertonsearch | March 21, 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…

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IMPACT Newsletter – January 2022

By levertonsearch | March 21, 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…

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IMPACT Newsletter – November 2021

By levertonsearch | December 2, 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…

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IMPACT & Capital Group’s Virtual Event on Self Advocacy

By levertonsearch | November 10, 2021

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:…

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IMPACT Newsletter – September 2021

By levertonsearch | October 6, 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…

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Webinar with Dr Hannah Barham-Brown, Deputy Leader, Women’s Equality Party

By levertonsearch | September 9, 2021

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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IMPACT Newsletter – August 2021

By levertonsearch | September 1, 2021

There has been a lot more in the news this month that I thought you would find interesting. The podcast on anxiety in the work place is fascinating and worth a listen. If there is one article to rev up your desire to spread the word on women in investing, it is the pension gap…

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IMPACT Newsletter – March 2021

By levertonsearch | April 1, 2021

The clocks have gone back, the weather is warming up, and we’re a month closer to normality! I hope you are all feeling that extra motivation that comes with the brighter days.   Here at Leverton, March has been a really exciting month. The market has remained lively and we’ve made some great placements, as…

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IMPACT Newsletter – February 2021

By levertonsearch | February 25, 2021

With the days starting to get both longer and warmer, we’re feeling optimistic for the return of normality. Now that we have dates in the diary for the roadmap out of COVID restrictions, we are beginning to explore new topics for events that we are hoping to run in person. Rachael is back from maternity…

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