Sanlam UK's Lovell: There are some scenarios I have never witnessed before

Life under lockdown and ESG investing

Penny Lovell, who has been CEO of private wealth at Sanlam UK since September 2017, talks to Lauren Mason about dealing with clients during lockdown, the further surge in ESG investing and what she has learned from the pandemic.

What first attracted you to the wealth management industry? I had always been very interested in finance and investments. My mum was always a big investor and always loved the stockmarket, so I was heavily influenced as a child. I was always having to monitor the newspapers or Ceefax to tell her what was happening to any stock at any particular time. Then, after university, I did the graduate milk round and the jobs that interested me most were in financial services. I was lucky enough to get onto a graduate training programme at Friends Provident [now rebranded to Royal London], wh...