Evita Zanusso from Big Society Capital was our speaker this week, and she gave us an overview of ‘Social Impact Investment’: investments that have a social benefit as well as a financial return. Dan Robertson from the Finance Society has provided us with a review: In today’s industry insights talk, Evita Zanuso provided a fascinating insight into the world of social impact investment. After having a more … Continue reading Industry Insights: Investing for Impact

A review of last night’s talk on the challenges of managing fixed income now that interest rates are likely to rise. Essential knowledge for anybody interested in asset management. http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/events/review-managing-fixed-income-portfolios-rising-interest-rate-environment/ Continue reading Industry Insights: Managing Fixed Income

A review of last night’s event http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/events/review-cooperative-banking/#more-info Continue reading Industry Insights: Why Cooperative Banking

Once again my colleague Dan Robinson has reviewed the event for us: Anannit Sumawong is a Quantitative analyst at GAM, and he’s an alumni of the ICMA Centre where he studied a masters in Financial Risk Management. In his talk he shared what a typical day is like, and told us some of the things he wished he’d known when he was starting out in … Continue reading Industry Insights: “A life in a day of a buy-side risk manager”

What are the key turning points in a career? We will all have two or three key moments in our working life that define the direction of the remainder of our career. In this talk we learned how to seek out and make the most of opportunities for career development. Stuart Sinclair Non-Executive Director, Lloyds Banking Group   Stuart Sinclair currently holds the position of … Continue reading Industry Insights: Career Turning Points