Deep Dive: Corporate diversity is vital

More women needed in senior roles

Harriet Parker, an investment manager on the Liontrust sustainable investment team, dives into ESG - governance.

Engaging with companies on ESG issues can help ensure a focus on high-quality businesses and also operate as a lever to encourage better corporate behaviour.  Such an approach challenges companies to manage the wider aspects of their business proactively, which in turn, protects their longer-term prospects.  For example, it is vital to engage businesses to improve corporate diversity. There has been good progress on gender diversity in the UK over the last decade, most notably on board composition, but more needs to be done when it comes to women in senior roles.  Looking at what has ...