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CEO Inclusive Culture Guide Part 1: Deciding what steps to take
Part 1: takes you through deciding the steps to take now. Part one is designed to help CEOs determine where their ...
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CEO Inclusive Culture Guide Part 2: Digging deeper – if you want to
Part 2: digs deeper if you want to. Part two provides more options and looks at some of the complexities around ...
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CEO Inclusive Culture Guide Part 3: Recap and resources
Part 3: recaps the key points and provides checklists and resources. Part three provides a recap, checklists, and materials to support ...
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CEO Inclusive Culture Guide: Summary
An inclusive culture is a better place to work for everyone. It is associated with higher engagement, productivity, and profitability, ...
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Cognitive Diversity Full Research
New study by Professor Alex Edmans finds cognitive diversity can give investment teams a significant edge – but only if managed ...
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The Business Case for Enhanced Paternity Leave – Introduction
In today’s competitive business environment, attracting and retaining top talent is paramount. A crucial component of this effort is ...
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Menopause Provision – Key Insurers
We have collated the main insurers’ current menopause provisions – following on from our #MenopauseUnmuted event on World Menopause last year, ...
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Top Five Mental Health Wellbeing Tips
Read the pdf attached to find out our top five mental health wellbeing tips....
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Heard in the Room 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Diversity Project Neurodiversity events to commemorate Neurodiversity Celebration week 2024. Our first ...
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Diversity Project’s 2024 Goals and Priorities
Diversity Project Goals and Priorities 2024 The DP is a cross-company initiative championing a truly diverse and inclusive UK Investment and ...
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Domestic Abuse Fact sheet
Download the Diversity Project’s Domestic Abuse Factsheet – the fact sheet includes potential signs of domestic abuse to look out ...
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Pathway Candidate Brochure
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Member Pathway Brochure
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Non-Member Pathway Brochure
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Diversity Project’s response to the FCA 23/20 Diversity and Inclusion consultation paper
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The Jane Welsh Scholarship Award Winner 2023 Winning Essay
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D&I Data
Executive Summary – Diversity Project’s Goal and Progress Tool Survey
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Diversity Project’s Goals and Progress Tool – Full Reporting
This deck outlines the high-level results and findings from the 2023 reporting cycle for the Diversity Project Goals and Progress Tool....
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Case Study – Emerging Neurodiverse Talent Attraction – Legal and General Work Experience Programme
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Menopause Support: Understanding Menopause Booklet
Menopause Support has launched a new guidance booklet “Understanding Menopause” to support women to better understand and navigate Menopause....
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Neurodiversity Survey Results 2023: Understanding the experience of neurodivergent employees in the investment and savings industry
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Diversity Project Aims and Objectives 2023
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Pathway FAQs
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Workstream roles and responsibilities 2023
Workstreams roles and responsibilities 2023....
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Advisory Council roles and responsibilities 2023
Advisory Council roles and responsibilities 2023....
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Diversity Project roles and responsibilities 2023
Outlining the remit and roles of the Advisory Council, Steering Group and Workstreams....
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Mental Health Report – Event slides
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Menopause Legislation Webinar Slides
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Working Families: Maternity and Paternity Policies – 31.01.2023
Explore the results of the Working Families Maternity and Paternity Policies Survey 2023. ...
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Testosterone and the menopause by Dr Louise Newson
This booklet has been written by Dr Louise Newson, GP, menopause specialist and director of the balance app. She is ...
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Menopause Depression
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Understanding the experience of neurodivergent employees in the investment and savings industry
During the summer, the Diversity Project conducted a survey of neurodivergent individuals working in the investment and savings industry. The ...
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Diversity Project Menopause Pledge – Make the Change
According to the Standard Chartered and Financial Services Skills Commission report last year, 128,000 women, or 1 in 10 employees, working in the ...
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Diversity Project – Aims And Objectives 2022
The Diversity Project’s aims and objectives for 2022....
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Types of Menopause
Types of Menopause – covering menopause in all types of people, not just women of a certain age. It covers: Typical ...
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Social mobility, inequality and fairness: An interview with Dr Louise Ashley
Dr Louise Ashley never set out to become an expert and academic on social class. After completing a PhD on ...
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First-of-its-kind ‘Future Female Fund Managers Programme’ set to move the dial on diversity
The Diversity Project is launching a first-of-its-kind Future Female Fund Managers Programme – an industry wide effort to address the under-representation ...
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International Women’s Day: The Diversity Project’s Three Point Plan to Reach Our 2026 Gender Targets.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2022 – and in the UK, there is much cause for celebration; women are now ...
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The Diversity Project launches new Inclusive Culture Guide for CEOs
The Diversity Project has set out practical steps to achieving an inclusive culture in a new guide aimed at CEOs ...
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Nest Case Study: Successfully Recruiting Diverse Talent
The Nest Summer Internship program 2021. Christina Finlay, Director of Data & Analytics at Nest, has always been acutely aware of ...
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Working families – 5-year plan
The Diversity Project’s Working Families 5 year plan....
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Social mobility and its discontents: An interview with Lee Elliot-Major
Social mobility refers to the upward (and downward) movement of individuals through the rungs of social class. Socioeconomic diversity, on ...
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New guide for “Supporting Working Carers”
The How Do You Do It organisation has put together this great guide Supporting Working Carers. With over 5 million carers ...
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Returners – An Untapped Source Of Talent
Returner initiatives aim to create a supported route back to a professional level role for individuals who have taken an ...
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Disability webpage launched
Disability webpage launched with lots of useful resources and information. Take a look at our new disability webpage....
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I Before D, That’s The Way It’s Meant To Be
Caroline Keetch, the co-Founder of Halsey Keetch and a Diversity Project Ambassador, explores what inclusion in the workplace means and ...
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Fish out of Water
The Fish out of Water Campaign is based on real life stories of individuals within our industry who have often ...
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The class ceiling: An interview with Sam Friedman
Few people in the UK have thought more about social mobility and equality than sociologist Sam Friedman. In this wide-ranging ...
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Asset Owner Diversity Charter Launched
A group of UK asset owners are today inviting others to sign a new Diversity Charter to tackle a lack ...
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Asset Owner Diversity Charter
This is a commitment by signatory firms to work together to build an investment industry which represents a more balanced ...
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Asset Owner Diversity Charter Toolkit
This document supports signatories in their commitment to the implementation of the Asset Owner Diversity Charter....
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Asset Owner Diversity Charter – FAQs
Frequently asked questions on the Asset Owner Diversity Charter....
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Asset Owner Diversity & Inclusion Questionnaire
A Excel Spreadsheet diversity and inclusion questionnaire for Asset Managers....
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Race and Ethnicity Workstream 5 Year Plan
The five year plan for the Diversity Project’s Race and Ethnicity Workstream....
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The Diversity Project’s 5 year goals
The Diversity Project celebrates its 5th anniversary and sets out ambitious new targets to accelerate progress towards a more inclusive ...
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Steve Butler on the launch of ‘The Diversity Project’ book
I’m a white, middle-aged man, with nothing that would count as a disability. I’m not an obvious champion ...
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Disrupting class: An interview with Sophie Pender, founder of the 93% Club
Sophie Pender kindly agreed to take a break from her high-pressured (and billable) work schedule as a lawyer to discuss ...
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Leaving Covid Behind – Putting Neuroinclusion Ahead
Our COVID-19 working experience has helped us recognise that there is more than one way to get things done. Successful ...
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Holding up the mirror
This report seeks to build a case for how we can achieve collective success by looking at the current state ...
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Launch of ‘Holding Up the Mirror’ confronts the challenges of diversity data collection
LGBT Great, EY, the Diversity Project and Nicsa launch ‘Holding Up the Mirror: Diversity Data in the Investment, Wealth Management ...
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Diversity Project – Goals and Objectives 2021
The Diversity Project’s Goals and Objectives for 2021....
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Janus Henderson Case Study: Recruiting Diverse Talent
All investment companies search for a competitive advantage. Janus Henderson already knew that the diversity of its people and the ...
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Social Mobility web page launched
Our Social Mobility web page has now been added to The Diversity Project’s website. Please visit this page for ...
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Oliver Wyman: Making the Invisible Visible
Companies recognize that diverse executive teams drive more innovation and better business outcomes, and in acknowledgment of that have been ...
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CityHive Mentoring Scheme 2021
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Inclusion and Diversity at Schroders: a new approach to flexible working
At Schroders, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where our people feel empowered to be themselves with a ...
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The urgent need to focus on the gender agenda amidst the pandemic
During a webinar on 3rd February attended by over 200, the Diversity Project’s CEO gender subgroup and the co-leads of ...
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Scope Get Inclusive: Access to Work
There has been lots of research from Scope and other organisations on the extra costs of living and working for ...
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Scope Get Inclusive: Interview Toolkit
Scope research shows disabled jobseekers apply for 60% more roles than non-disabled people. Introducing a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled people ...
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Scope Get Inclusive: Policies and Procedures
Scope research shows that 53% of disabled people have experienced bullying or harassment at work. 58% have felt at risk of losing ...
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Scope Get Inclusive: Recruitment Toolkit
Scope research shows that gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people has remained at 30% for the last ...
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Socioeconomic Diversity in the Investment and Savings Industry
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‘Return to Work’ Survey – Three Key Takeaways
The Diversity Project’s SMART Working workstream in partnership with Qlearsite surveyed over 500 participants in the savings and investment industry ...
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Diversity Project Achievements 2020
The achievements to date of the Diversity Project in 2020....
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Return to work survey findings
The Diversity Project’s SMART Working workstream has recently run a survey in partnership with Qlearsite with over 500 participants in ...
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Diversity Data – The challenges of data collection and developing a culture of self-reporting
With the anticipation of mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting, and an increased focus on race prompted by the Black Lives ...
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The Future of Work: Lessons from a pandemic
KPMG and the Financial Services Skills Commission have launched a report ‘The Future of Work: Lessons from a pandemic’. The ...
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#talkaboutblack Allyship
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5 point CEO Action Plan
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Build Back Better
Providing leaders with a broad perspective on inclusion and diversity for ‘New World’ playbooks. Whilst the outlook remains unclear and ...
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A Smart Working Manifesto for change for the investment and saving industry
Industry informed by the findings from our research, this Manifesto for Change presents a challenge to the investment and savings ...
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Timewise | How to negotiate flexible working for the long-term: A toolkit for employees
There’s no question that we’re living through a challenging time. Covid-19 has ripped up the rulebook on what ...
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Timewise | Redesigning the workplace: A line manager’s guide to supporting flexible working in your team
Covid-19 has ripped up the rulebook on what normal work looks like. Whole organisations and sectors, including those previously resistant ...
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#talkaboutblack What actions can your company take to drive real change?
Racism continues to exist because people don’t speak up when they see it or when they hear it. We ...
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#talkaboutblack What actions can you, as an individual, take to drive real change?
Racism continues to exist because people don’t speak up when they see it or when they hear it. We ...
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#talkaboutblack Overview
The UK is the world’s second largest savings market after the United States totalling £7.7trn. The industry employs 100,000 individuals ...
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Diversity Project – Goals and 2020 Priorities
The Diversity Project’s Goals and Priorities for 2020....
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Timewise and Diversity Project Insight Summary
The Diversity Project and Timewise project looking at Smart working within the Savings and Investment Industry has made three recommendations ...
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Why our savings and investments project is more critical now than ever
The Diversity Project and Timewise are partnering to increase flexible working across the savings and investments industry. And as we ...
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FAQs from the Working Families session: 9th April 2020
FAQs from the Working Families webinar on the 9th April 2020....
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Timewise: Participant guide to successful Zoom meetings & workshops
Guidance from Timewise on participating in successful zoom meetings & workshops....
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FAQs from the Gender Ask Me Anything session: 24th April 2020
FAQs from the Gender Ask Me Anything session on the 24th April 2020....
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LGBT Great launches Project 1000, Pride 2020 Campaign
A briefing note on the launch of the LGBT Great Project 1000, Pride 2020 Campaign. #YouMeUsWe...
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Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on domestic violence
Add another public health crisis to the toll of the new coronavirus: Mounting data suggests that domestic abuse is acting ...
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Domestic violence resources
A selection of resources on Domestic Abuse during the Coronavirus crisis....
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Survivor Story – Domestic Abuse
The story of a survivor of Domestic Abuse....
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Why hiring veterans makes good business sense
The skills and characteristics of people leaving the Armed Forces tend to be a very good fit for financial institutions…...
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Armed Forces Covenant Pledge Your Support
We would like to introduce you to the Armed Forces Covenant. This covenant means that organisations demonstrate and publically promise ...
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Military Terms
Here are some military acronyms that you may come across when liaising with ex-Armed Forces....
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FAQs from the Mental Health Ask Me Anything Webinar: 17th April 2020
The Potential signs of deteriorating mental health, from Mental Health Q&As webinar on the 17th April 2020....
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The Trustee Diversity Guide
Pension schemes take note: The Pensions Regulator – the main regulator for trust-based schemes -has now announced that diversity will, alongside ...
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New COVID-9 response resources page
Check out the DP’s new COVID-9 response resources page, with lots of practical resources during this time of crisis. ...
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Working remotely during the COVID19 lockdown – Top 10 Tips for neurodivergent colleagues
Working remotely during the COVID19 lockdown – Top 10 Tips for neurodivergent colleagues by Meike Bliebenicht, DP NeuroInclusion Workstream Lead – April 2020....
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PLSA: Diversity & Inclusion Made Simple Guide
There is robust and extensive evidence showing that teams which are more diverse and inclusive make better decisions and achieve ...
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A mum’s top 10 tips to help a child with ASD to get through the formative years of childhood
With a seemingly ever-increasing number of ASD diagnosis’ amongst children and young people, it is no wonder that school SENCo ...
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FAQs from the Mental Health Ask Me Anything Session
FAQs from the Mental Health Ask Me Anything webinar on the 27th March 2020....
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Top 10 tips for Mental Health whilst working from home
The COVID 19 outbreak is an unprecedented crisis impacting the entire global community. Whilst governments are racing to find medical and ...
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Oliver Wyman Report: Women in financial services 2020
The financial services industry is finally making progress on gender balance in the workforce. Mindsets are shifting and, as a ...
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Top 12 SMART Working Tips for Employees
SMART Working has become the new norm. As companies mobilise and transition to a 100% remote work force, employees and managers ...
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How Fidelity International is successfully embedding diversity and inclusion
Jayne Styles talks to Sarah Kaiser, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, about how Fidelity International’s D&I ...
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Diversity Project Achievements 2019
The achievements to date of the Diversity Project in 2019....
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SMART Working: Let’s Get ‘Smarter’ with Technology
SMART Working workstream has formulated industry recommendations on how organisations can use technology to help overcome both the cultural and ...
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Understanding D_I in the Investment Management Industry
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How Redington successfully embedded diversity and inclusion
Mitesh and Lee share their experiences, learning and thoughts on improving diversity and inclusion (D&I) and are keen ...
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Mind the gap: Investment management community needs to apply more than just lip service to pay equality
New analysis shows the gender pay gap in the investment management sector has deteriorated, leading to the second worst performance ...
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Time to get serious: If diversity is a business imperative, treat it like one
A report by PwC, in association with the Diversity Project, on diversity and inclusion in investment management. Gender pay reporting ...
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Addressing barriers to Diversity in portfolio management: Performance continuity and turnover
The loss of performance continuity through leave of absence and the impact of low team turnover on diverse talent of ...
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Case studies: advancing diversity in portfolio management: performance continuity & turnover
Case studies to demonstrate good examples supporting the initiative – advancing diversity in portfolio management: performance continuity & turnover. Featuring case ...
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Aviva – Welcoming talent back to the workforce
We know that more work needs to be done to improve the number of women in senior roles in Finance. ...
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Early career attraction survey – factsheet
The findings and resulting recommendations from Diversity Project’s survey on early career attraction....
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The Gender Pensions Gap – can it be closed?
Women in their late 50s have around 50% less pension savings than men according to a report from the Pensions Policy ...
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Promise progress or failure to prioritise gender pay – May 2019
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Neurodiversity glossary
Neurodiversity is a relatively new aspect of overall workplace diversity. Therefore, definitions around the topic may evolve over time. The ...
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What is neurodiversity?
It is well documented that a diverse workforce is crucial to driving business growth and innovative thinking....
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Neurodiversity Top 10 Tips
To attract neurodivergent candidates and to be able to fully benefit from the neurodiverse make-up of their workforce, investment management ...
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Neurodiversity versus other areas of diversity
Neurodiversity is often confused or mixed up with other definitions and areas of diversity. This document may provides some guidance....
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Aiming for Great – New download from LGBT Great on leadership and talent
LGBT Great have published a new study: Aiming For Great: Why it pays to invest in LGBT+ leadership and talent ...
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Diversity Project – Goals And 2019 Priorities
Find out what the Diversity Project’s workstreams’ goals and aims for 2019 are....
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Diversity and culture – Analysis of the differences and similarities in how companies approach diversity and culture and why it matters
New Financial have created this report on diversity and culture. The report analyses the differences and similarities in how companies ...
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Taking the right approach to ethnicity pay gap reporting – PWC March 2019
There are few things more important to an organisation than its reputation, culture and people. And there are few issues ...
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Diversity Project School Engagement
A look at some of the great projects currently engaging with schools....
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Closing the Gap: Addressing the Gender Pay Gap – The Investment Association
The purpose of the report is to showcase how member firms are proactively addressing their gender pay gaps through the ...
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SMART working: Practical recommendations
Presentation with practical guidance and recommendations on smart working at three different levels: Organisational Level Management & Team Level Individual ...
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible
Back in early 2016 I was offered a complimentary place on a Women In Leadership course in London. It was a ...
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Diversity Project achievements to the end of 2018 – Poster
A poster highlighting what the Diversity Project has achieved to the end of 2018....
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Jane Welsh highlights the need for Cognitive Diversity in Viewpoint magazine
The Diversity Project’s Jane Welsh has had an article published in Viewpoint magazine highlighting the need for greater Cognitive ...
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Does asset management have a purpose?
Does asset management have a purpose or is it, in Lord Turner’s terms, “socially useless”? Sitting in front of ...
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Reducing the gender pay gap and improving gender equality in organisations: Evidence-based actions for employers
Employers have asked us which actions are likely to improve recruitment and progression of women and reduce the gender pay ...
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Spotlight on Women in Asset Management (Fixed Income) – Godliman Partners
Our Fixed Income research consists of 5871 Investment professionals, across Credit, Rates, Macro and Private Debt, from Heads of teams to ...
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Gender balance at Standard Life Aberdeen October 2018
We aim for an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they can be themselves and are valued for what they bring. ...
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Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting 30 September 2018 update
With the first year of gender pay reporting now behind us a number of organisations are starting to disclose their ...
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Aviva Equal Parenting Leave Programme: Removing the barriers to career progression
We believe that unconscious bias in hiring and promotions is inevitable in any system that treats men and women differently ...
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Diversity in Portfolio Management
Read the new Diversity in Portfolio Management by New Financial, in collaboration with the Diversity Project....
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Why are there so few women in UK asset management?
Consultations conducted between March and June 2018 with senior women and minority men in UK asset management about the potential causes ...
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Mandatory UK gender pay reporting – the story so far
Following the introduction of Mandatory UK gender pay reporting, this report by PWC looks at the story so far....
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Gender pay gap reporting Investment Management
The 5th of April 2018 marks the end of the first year of disclosures under the new UK gender pay gap ...
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Gender Equality – Guidance for Leaders
Leaders set the tone in an organisation and, therefore, if diverse talent is going to join and thrive in your ...
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Gender Equality – Guidance for Managers
Managers play a critical role in achieving an inclusive culture in organisations. It is they who run meetings, determine work ...
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Gender Equality – Guidance for Organisations
Organisational structures, processes and culture may all, inadvertently, disadvantage some groups and privilege others. There are a number of organisational ...
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Now that I have your attention
By Gavin Lewis, Head of UK Institutional Distribution at Vanguard. Member of Diversity Project’s Steering Committee and Co-lead of ...
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Diversity is the solution, not a problem to solve
Fostering inclusive and more diverse workplaces can play an important role in addressing some of the most important business issues, ...
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So, can we talk? #talkaboutblack
Imagine watering your parched lawn, hosepipe in hand on a scorching hot summer’s day, when suddenly the flowing water ...
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Mind the gap – the gender pay Gap in the investment industry
What is the gender pay gap? The gender pay gap reporting requirements require all organisations employing more than 250 to report ...
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Diversity Project – goals and 2018 priorities
Find out what the Diversity Project’s workstreams’ goals and aims for 2018 are....
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Mind The Gap – The Gender Pay Gap In The Investment Industry
Mind The Gap – The Gender Pay Gap in the Investment Industry. Find out innovative ways to address your company’s ...
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Top Tips For Returners
Returners – top tips! Are you seeking a new role after a career break? Read our top tips....
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What advice I would give my younger self – for International Women’s Day 2018
A flyer with advice from Diversity Project Ambassadors – “what advice I would give my younger self”. Complied for International Women’...
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Standard Life Aberdeen’s inclusion vision
Standard Life Aberdeen felt it was important to be transparent and vocal about the efforts they are putting in place ...
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Diversity from an Investor’s perspective
Diversity from an Investor’s perspective. Find out why and how the most forward looking asset owners are addressing diversity ...
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Progressing gender diversity at Standard Life Aberdeen
Aberdeen Asset Management plc and Standard Life plc were delighted to be among the first signatories to the HM Treasury ...
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Sign up to the Diversity Project’s Diversity 10 point action plan!
Check out the video below about the Diversity Project's Diversity 10 point action plan....
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Diversity in investment management benchmarking study
The purpose of this study: Understand the level of diversity in the investment and savings industry in the UK, primarily ...
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DP Mercer – benchmarking Study leaflet
This landmark study seeks to understand why and how the industry needs to evolve to build a more diverse profession....
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The Diversity Project/Mercer Benchmarking Study
This landmark study sponsored by the Diversity Project seeks to understand why and how the industry needs to evolve to ...
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The curious case of diversity dividend – How diversity links to performance
In June 2017, the Women in Governance Roundtable, the only all-female annual governance meeting that brings together female board directors of ...
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Outnumbered but not outpaced: why it matters that there are so few female fund managers
In recent years, the financial services sector has dramatically shifted its approach to diversity with a raft of proactive policies ...
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Wellington Management: Business networks and diversity working groups
Wellington Management has 12 business networks with regional chapters across the globe. Our business networks are all inclusive, peer-led groups that ...