Addressing the gender imbalance
With so much talk of the gender gap in financial services, Outsider had to give himself a shake recently.
Attending the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association (SIAA) conference in Sydney, he was listening to an adviser looking to address the gender imbalance in her firm.
Outsider yawned in preparation for the standard comments about how the industry needed more women to join and how there was a lack of female representation.
On the contrary, the firm was looking to hire a male!
A male being on a tick-box list is certainly a rarity, Outsider thought, was he hearing things correctly?
It appears so as the firm already has four female financial planners and another female support staff member.
Still, Outsider thought, maybe it would make a nice change for a male to be the one in the minority in financial services for a change.
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