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Industry groups launch after-school programme for disadvantaged kids
#talkaboutblack has launched The Catalyst After School Program to help tackle underrepresentation in the industry
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Survey launches to explore LGBT+ equality in investing
LGBT community asked to share views on how investment firms should manage their money
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Investment20/20 urges industry to help young unemployed with Kickstart programme
Kickstart initiative is aimed at 16-24 year olds on Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment
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Investors call on FTSE 100 firms to publish ethnic make-up of boards
Greater transparency is needed to allow investors to hold companies to account
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Mentoring programme launched to increase number of black professionals in the c-suite
Investment20/20 and #talkaboutblack team up to pair investment management leaders with senior black professionals
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Businesses encouraged to embrace flexible working permanently
Survey reveals only 3% of finance professionals want to work entirely from the office post-Covid
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Mind the Gap – the Gender Pension Gap
City Hive CEO and ESG Clarity editorial panellist Bev Shah says it is the investment industry’s responsibility to take action on the Gender Pension Gap
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RBC GAM votes against management 100% of time on gender pay gap
Shareholders are increasingly asking investee companies to disclose gender pay gap ratios
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Fund group CEOs urged to step up action on diversity
‘Firms must make significant cultural changes, and that starts at the top’
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AIC initiative to increase diversity on trust boards
AIC has launched online resource for potential investment company board candidates
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BlackRock tops Refinitiv’s top 100 most diverse firms
Financial services scored surprisingly well in the Index but still have lower than average cultural diversity on boards


