In a male-dominated financial world, the pensions sector is seeing a surge in female leadership. The UK's largest pension fund and several prominent US pension funds are now headed by women. This trend is creating a snowball effect, with women now leading 28% of the world's largest pension funds, significantly outpacing the wider financial sector's 16% female leadership.
In a world of finance dominated by men, there is one corner where women are in charge. The UK’s largest pension fund, one of its biggest managers of local government pension assets, its pensions lifeboat and the investment strategy of its largest defined contribution “master trust” are all run by women.
“As a leader in the industry — I take my holidays, I don’t work weekends, I go home at a decent hour and I expect that to be the same for everyone that works for me,” she said. “Once you start to have a position where you are managing people you can role model some of the behaviours that you would like to see and that you as a manager benefit from as well.
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