The asset management industry should be nurturing talent of modern-day Britain

Rethinking ways to attract and retain new talent

Howard Schultz is a name not many people may be familiar with.

His father was a truck driver and he was the first in his family to go to university. In the early 1980s, he paid a visit to a small coffee shop in Seattle and, impressed by their operation, took a job there. He later became the chairman of that company, with a personal net worth of more than $3bn. The name of the coffee shop? Starbucks.  The diversity dividend: Why being (and being allowed to be) yourself at work is valuable to your organisation 'Rags-to-riches' stories are, in essence, examples of social mobility. Yet such stories are rare. Too few children from disadvantag...