The financial services industry is often indicted for a lack of employee diversity. At the recent Lipper Fund Selector Forum, Jake Moeller moderated a panel which examined this important issue. The entire panel is showcased here. Jake was joined by Bev Shah, founder and CEO of CityHive; Maike Currie, Investment Director at Fidelity; and Natalie Kenway, Deputy Editor at Investment Week. The panel outlined the importance and benefits of improving gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and age diversity. Running order Run Time Topic 00:00 Introduction 01:00 What do we mean by “diversity”? 03:15 How does cognitive diversity benefit a company? 07:00

Bev Shah is the founder and managing director of City Hive – a networking group for women in the investment and funds management industry. In this podcast, Bev discusses some of the challenges she has faced as a mother of two children and a former high-profile fund selector in the U.K. She outlines the importance and benefits of companies pursuing work-place diversity and reveals her motivation in addressing the gender imbalance in financial services. Bev is talking with Jake Moeller, Head of Lipper UK & Ireland Research for Thomson Reuters in London on January 27, 2017 About Bev Shah Bhavini