Sarah Bates, The Eighth Day & Investment Nimbyism

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From trawling The Eighth Day shop on Manchester’s Oxford Road in a long black cloak and dress to chairing the UK’s largest in-house pension asset manager at USS via one of the first graduate trainee schemes for stockbrokers, Sarah Bates has a long, storied and hugely successful career in the City and beyond. She has been a fund manager, a CEO, and has chaired some of the UK’s biggest pension funds.

Sarah was also one of the founders of The Diversity Project in 2015 which continues to make significant strides in improving DEI in the UK’s savings and investment sector.

But what makes Sarah tick, and what is her take on the state of regulation and reputation in today’s asset management sector. 

In this episode, Neil Robson of law firm Katten, and David Masters of reputation specialists Lansons Team Farner talk to Sarah about the challenges of improving DEI in the investment industry, the state of current regulation and what asset managers could do to improve their reputation with clients.

Recorded and produced at the Lansons Studios