Women are still woefully underrepresented in wealth management, with Citywire’s Alpha Female Report last year showing just 12.5% of active portfolio managers are female.

For International Women’s Day last week, Citywire hosted a roundtable featuring four Top 100 Women. The industry’s poor female retention rate was a hot topic of discussion, along with the need for senior management to become proactive mentors.

George Latham, managing partner at Wheb Asset Management, joins us to discuss why the time was right to sell and whether the appetite for sustainable investing is waning.

Dan Hurdley, managing director of ARC Research, knows about the challenges in sourcing real MPS performance data better than most.

In this episode, William Marshall, chief investment officer at Hymans Robertson Investment services, discusses Trump’s tariffs and its impact on the UK market, and how the UK is in a better position than other market to navigate upcoming volatility.

Stacey Parsons, founder and chair of Investor Access to Regulated Markets (IARB), discusses the FCA’s recent plans to cut the red tape around corporate bonds.

Veteran fund manager, David Cumming, head of UK equities at BNY/Newton discusses his rather optimistic view on the ‘unloved’ UK market over the next year amidst Trump’s inauguration and how ‘the zeitgeist has moved past ESG’.

It’s been a very busy year for wealth management. Join our reporters in the studio as we discuss the highlights of the last year.

Jonathon Regis and Nigel Hikmet, who both work in Lansdowne Partners’ $5bn developed market team, discuss the hedge fund firm's evolution and why their strategy has never has 'almost never looked this different to the index'.

Think all tech investors are obsessed with the latest gadgets and trends? Think again.

Veteran tech investor William de Gale, co-founder of BlueBox Asset Management, is avoiding Nvidia, sceptical of Bitcoin and searching for ‘boring’ companies.

What will be the endgame for SDR?

 

The regulator’s sustainable labels had a rocky start, with many rejecting the labels altogether amid various issues with the process,, but the teething problems appear to be over now, according to Parmenion’s senior investment manager Mollie Thornton.