All Diversity articles – Page 6
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OpinionThe gap between theory and practice
Editorial: Companies with greater gender and ethnic diversity at board level perform better financially, consultancy McKinsey has shown. It seems the 2014 research has now filtered down to investors.
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Opinion
Pension trustee boards and gender diversity: Is the glass ceiling shatterproof?
Analysis: New studies of UK corporate boards show that in the business sector, women still hold very few senior management positions. Has female representation remained comparably low at pension trustee boards in 2016?
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News
Women undersave due to childcare, but AE carer credits unlikely
Women do not save enough for pensions due to the persistence of the breadwinner model and a lack of confidence in their own financial aptitude, a new study shows. Despite this, a proposal to introduce carer credits to auto-enrolment was rebuffed by the pensions minister this week.
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Opinion
Should member communications be tailored to gender?
Women take career breaks more often, live longer and might have different attitudes to finance. Royal London’s Fiona Tait looks at whether member communications should reflect that.
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Features
The big sell: How to attract new trustees to a scheme
Any Other Business: The role of pension trustee has grown in complexity over recent years and has become too daunting a task for many, but some schemes are finding new ways to lure fresh blood to the role.
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Opinion
How mixing the trustee board make-up can boost performance
Trustee boards are dominated by men aged 55 and over. Law firm Gordons’ Terry Saeedi suggests practical ways to make schemes more inclusive.
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Opinion
Mixing it up: how added diversity could boost trustee board results
GSAM’s Kathleen Hughes argues a broader spread of backgrounds on trustee boards would better reflect schemes’ members, could achieve more effective decision-making and provide valuable experience for future company board talent.
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News
Pensions Trust reflects on trustee election after diversity move
The Pensions Trust did not see a bump in engagement in its latest round of trustee elections despite adding online voting, following a controversial decision to take names off the ballot to avoid “unconscious bias” towards male candidates.
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Opinion
Editorial: Raise the diversity question
“Whilst we’ve got some problems in the business, I also know that all of the answers are already here.” That was new Tesco boss Dave Lewis talking in a company interview posted last week.
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News
The Pensions Trust takes names off ballot to reduce bias
The Pensions Trust has anonymised its trustee board elections in a controversial attempt to create a more diverse board, as schemes work to improve representation on male-dominated governance bodies.
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Opinion
Does your trustee board have a women problem?
Any other business: The prime minister is not the only one facing questions over diversity. A quick glance around the pensions industry shows white, middle-aged men make up the majority of trustee boards.
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Features
Push to extend trustee diversity efforts to company board selections
NAPF Investment Conference 2014: Pension trustee boards can provide a governance training ground for mid-level executives looking to get onto company boards, but diversity efforts have stumbled among member-nominated trustees, experts have said.
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News
Institutions boost calls for diversity to increase board effectiveness
News analysis: Voting strategies are growing in both popularity and complexity among institutional investors, after the Local Authority Pensions Fund Forum launched a drive to encourage gender diversity on the boards of companies it invests in.