All diversity articles
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News
IPE Conference: Asset managers urged to implement diversity policies
More diversity on decision-making panels leads to better investment decision and even outperformance of peers
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Country Report
Ethos makes active use of voting rights
Ethos CEO Vincent Kaufmann speaks to Luigi Serenelli about the Swiss Foundation for Sustainable Development, which is composed of 252 pension funds and public utility foundations. Ethos was founded in 1997 and aims to promote socially responsible investment by its active participation in company AGMs
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News
CFA launches DEI code to accelerate change in investment organisations
The code calls on firms to commit to six metric-based principles that will lead to greater inclusion of wider viewpoints from the best talent
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News
Diversity Project launches in Europe for an inclusive asset management industry
The asset management industry is behind other professional services sectors in terms of gender balance and the number of ethnic minorities in decision-making roles
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Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Standardised data on diversity and inclusion will help team development
Promoting inclusiveness and diversity in organisations is key to discovering their human capital potential. But fostering a culture of continuous improvement is critical if this is to be fully realised.
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News
IORP II reform: European pension associations dissect EIOPA’s review proposals
Several industry officials believe ‘it’s too soon’ for a review of the Directive
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Interviews
Nikko Asset Management: Complex, creative thinking
Stefanie Drews is at home with complexity. She speaks several languages fluently, including Japanese, and tells us she still does her maths in Italian.
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News
TPR launches diversity, equality and inclusion guidance for pension fund trustees
The guidance provides pointers for chairs – explaining that the chair should play a key role in making boards more diverse and inclusive
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News
Asset owners target top management performance at AGMs
Decisions on ESG and executive pay are also top priorities
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Can we use gender diversity to generate greater investment returns?
The effect of gender diversity on company performance has been well researched, but can it be used to identify the potential for better investment outcomes? Realindex conducted a new study to find out.
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News
Governance codes for Dutch pension boards to include cultural diversity
Currently, it is recommended pension funds have at least one woman and one person younger than 40 on their boards
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News
Investors should pay more attention to people, says Federated Hermes
EOS will next year expand its requirement for FTSE100 companies to have at least one director from a minority ethnic group to the FTSE350
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News
Diversity Project launches world first career development programme
DEI remains a low priority for many pension trustee boards
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News
Norway’s SWF worried about Japan’s lack of female corporate leaders
NBIM speaks out on gender diversity on Japanese company boards
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News
UK trustee boards do not prioritise diversity and inclusion, says TPR
Just 10% of DB schemes and 14% of DC schemes were collecting trustee diversity data, TPR research shows
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News
Finbourne partners with Denominator to empower buy-side with diversity data
Detailed analysis and interpretation of DEI data has now become a complex and heavily manual task for many asset managers
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News
EIOPA chair hopes IORP II review will cover diversity considerations
Petra Hielkema also expresses desire to ‘give something back’ to industry due to enhanced data collection
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UK roundup: Charity completes £61m bulk annuity transaction
Plus: Firefighters agree pension MoU with government; PIC invests in affordable housing; PPF sees drop in ethnicity pay gap
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Norway’s SWF ratchets up own leadership’s female representation
NBIM merges technology and operations areas, appointing Brigitte Bryne as head of new joint department
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Investors call for action on climate change, diversity
Investment Association encourages firms to disclose their plans for transition to net zero