Fiftyfaces Breakout Rooms
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Fiftyfaces Breakout rooms series is a spin-off of the Fiftyfaces Podcast which will focus on specific topics, and sometimes feature panel style discussions, sometimes documentary style collaborations. The Fiftyfaces Podcast, which features 58 interviews focused on showcasing the diversity and richness of the investment world by focusing on its people and their stories.
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Episode 1: The GAIN Summer Internship 2021 - Reflections, Highlights, Insights
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 29.3 MBIn October 2020 GAIN (Girls are Investors) launched its inaugural Summer 2021 internship programme and received applications from nearly 200 talented young women from 48 universities. Through 22 partner investment management firms, they offered internships to 25 young women in Summer 2021 with additional firms participating in the programme on an ongoing basis. In this podcast we meet with three of those students to discuss their internship experience. Our discussion starts with...
Girls are Investors/Fiftyfaces Collaboration: Building Confidence in a Changing World
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBThere is a popular narrative that women are less confident than men. But is this borne out in the data? Recently, I presented to a group of university students who were members of a Women in Asset Management club. And it seemed to me, in a somewhat troubling way, that the popular narrative that women are less confident than men has become accepted as a truth, one that has even become internalized by young women at a young age. We set out to tackle this issue and convened a panel o...
Breakout Room 5: Tackling Youth Employment - One Magical Day and its Impact
February 04, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBIn the throes of the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the annual fall in employment in the UK is now the highest in a decade. Work changes lives, and young people, and the importance of hope, opportunity and the dignity that employment confers are in supreme focus. In the aftermath of the riots in London of 2011 AON participated in a pathbreaking recruitment program that targeted unemployed youth in the Croydon area. As described by Stuart Heatley, then of Aon, the re...
Classroom to Boardroom Part 2: Student Perspective; Opening Minds and Career Pathways
January 26, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBIn early December we published the first Breakout Room podcast describing the Classroom to Boardroom program held this summer under the steerage of Derek Browne and Mitesh Sheth. To recall, the program was devised as a way to tackle under-representation of black talent in the investment industry. It was designed as a way for executives to “get out of their echo chamber” and hear directly from black youth about their perspectives, challenges they might face and maybe even identify ta...
The Covid Series Part 2 - University Students
January 13, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBThe Covid-19 Crisis has had a stark impact on university campuses, as the once crowded lecture theaters, dining halls and sports arenas sit empty and millions of students learn from remote locations. Student bodies are often the target of enhanced enforcement too, and they have been under focus for sometimes dodging restrictions, partying in college halls and close contacts been forced into sometimes repeated quarantines. In this breakout room I wanted to hear from a group of unive...
The Covid Series Part 1 - Business Owners
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBThe Covid-19 pandemic and government responses have upended society and have wreaked havoc on small businesses in particular. According to data from Homebase, as we now enter the holiday season and year end, metrics in term so hours worked, the number of businesses open and the number of employees working have sunk to pre-summer levels. The number of small business owners who don’t know if their business will survive has risen to 34% from 22% in July while 6% believe it won’t (from 3...
Breakout Room 1: Classroom to Boardroom - Ambition Unleashed
December 07, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 75 MBWelcome to our Breakout Room, which is the first spin off of The Fiftyfaces Podcast, a podcast committed to revealing the richness and diversity of the world of investment by focusing on its people, and their stories. The Fiftyfaces Breakout rooms series is a spin-off which will focus on specific topics, and sometimes feature panel-style discussions, sometimes documentary-style collaborations. This collaboration with Classroom to Boardroom is the first such “breakout room”, and we ...