Investment Week is hosting its Global Emerging Markets Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain.
During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of global emerging market managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond.
The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the moment in emerging markets and explain the role their strategies could play in client portfolios.
Attendees will also get the chance to network with peers, quiz our speakers, as well as benefit from CPD points
Diversity Project s SMART Working workstream: Flexible working must be seen as reason neutral
Industry urged to improve workers work-life balance
Artemis s Rosanna Burcheri is a member of The Diversity Project s SMART Working workstream
The asset management industry must make giving employees the right to flexible working hours reason neutral , according to Artemis s Rosanna Burcheri and Gareth Miller, who said flexibility should be built into every job role as standard rather than be offered retrospectively.
Fund manager Burcheri and head of change Miller are both members of The Diversity Project s SMART Working workstream, which promotes flexible working practices across the investment and savings industry..
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Deborah Rowland describes a conversation about leadership she had with Ruth Cairnie, chair of Babcock International Group. They talk about the slow progress in gender equality, and what it takes for leaders to succeed. Leaders, Deborah writes, must tap their own unique talent. Deborah, who was adopted at six weeks old, describes her personal history as giving her a detached curiosity that enabled her to help systems see themselves and transform. Self-knowledge helps leaders move from judgment to curiosity, and enables them to lead change well.
The nature of choice
Towards New Shores, by Dag Hammarskjold)
The University of Minnesota has gone 14 years without hiring a person of color as a head coach and remains the only Big Ten institution without a single person of color in the role of president, athletic director or head coach. With men's basketball coach Richard Pitino's tenure likely nearing an end, the Gophers' lack of diverse leadership is drawing renewed scrutiny. Even before the .
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