Industry must redouble leadership diversity efforts, trustees say
A majority of industry professionals polled believe greater strides must be made to improve the diversity of the leadership on trustee boards, Professional Pensions finds.
June results from PP's Pensions Buzz showed 57% of industry figures agree with the statement that diversity efforts must be "redoubled". Attracting "new blood from all sectors of pensions schemes will...
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