Pension funds globally are witnessing a surge in female leadership, with women now heading 28% of the largest 50 funds. This trend significantly outpaces the wider financial sector, where only 16% of leaders are women. Experts attribute this to the pensions industry's focus on long-term, relational decision-making, which may resonate more with women.
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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