Gender issues

None of the FP50 are close to equalizing their ranks of men and women.

After a social media quote provoked criticism, the special advisor on gender diversity replies.

Hiring former professionals could help firms improve diversity in a field that’s still 84% male.

The CEO of a large custodian firm challenged advisers to take on diversity or become irrelevant.

One way to effect positive change is by helping clients invest through a gender lens, says ThirtyNorth Investments exec Suzanne Mestayer.

Relura Horton, former regional managing director at Fidelity Custody and Clearing, hopes to attract more women clients to her new firm.

More than 80% of women in the advisory business find the old boys’ network undercuts their professional development.

The surge of women in the workforce in the 1970s and 1980s means that they have job skills, connections and careers that they can continue to pursue, says Ben Steverman.

Adviser gender ratios are reversed in this sector, for better or worse.