How can ShareSoc encourage more women to take an interest in investing?
Date of webinar: 05th March 2025
Webinar time: 5pm-6pm
As part of the lead up to International Women’s Day 2025 celebrations, ShareSoc is organising a special event with a panel of high-profile women who are great ambassadors for encouraging females to become interested in investing. We are pleased to be joined by Baroness Ros Altmann as our keynote speaker for this webinar. We would like to identify, where as an organisation we can support more women to consider individual investing, which is part of our proposed strategy going forward.
Panel members:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Baroness (Ros) Altmann, Member of the House of Lords
Baroness Ros Altmann is an award-winning expert on later life issues, including pensions, long-term investment, finance, retail savings, retirement planning and elderly care policy. She is an academic economist by training and was an institutional asset manager for many years, heading international pension investing for Chase and Rothschilds in London, before starting her own consultancy advising financial firms, pension funds, corporates, governments and policymakers on pensions, investment and later life policies. She is consumer advocate as well as understanding the needs of financial firms.
Ros now sits in the House of Lords and is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Emeritus Governor of the LSE, a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and an adviser to the International Longevity Centre. She is a Board Adviser to NatWest Cushon and a Non-Executive Director of Capital Pension Solutions.
Rosemary Banyard, Fund Manager at Downing LLP
Rosemary Banyard began her career with James Capel & Co where she was a senior investment analyst for 12 years before becoming a fund manager at AIB Govett. She rose to prominence and developed a reputation as one of the leading female fund managers in the UK after she joined Schroders in 1997. For almost 20 years she was known for running the acclaimed Schroder UK Smaller Companies Fund with Andy Brough and was for many years lead manager of the award-winning Schroder Mid Cap Fund PLC as well as heading up several other segregated UK equity mandates, managing total assets of circa £1 billion.
In 2016, she joined Sanford DeLand to launch and manage the Free Spirit Fund. The Schroder UK Mid Cap trust returned 17%* p.a while she was manager, and in her two and a half years managing money at Sanford DeLand, the Free Spirit Fund returned 31%** placing it in the top decile of the IA UK All Companies sector. She joined Downing in March 2020 to launch and manage the VT Downing Unique Opportunities Fund. Rosemary is also a trustee of HMS Victory Preservation Company
*Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund PLC, Annual Report & Accounts 2015
**Financial Express as at 28 June 2019
Jema Arnold, Non-Executive Director ShareSoc & SIGnet Director
Jema qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Price Waterhouse then specialised in financial recruitment for creative and consumer-facing businesses at organisations including Robert Walters, PageGroup and Korn Ferry. Jema first purchased shares in 1983 but after a 17 year investment break, joined SIGnet and ShareSoc in order to meet other investors and to broaden her investing knowledge. She is an active investor who is passionate about financially empowering individuals and is keen to encourage wider interest in and knowledge of investing.
Tamzin Freeman, Co-Founder PIWORLD
Tamzin became focussed on investing have lost money in her few bank holdings in the 2008 financial crises. Her reaction was a pledge to herself, ‘Either learn how to do it properly or don’t do it at all!’ It started a passion and a material (positive) change to her personal finances. Tamzin’s career background was in sales and marketing, having graduated from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In 2015, Tamzin co-founded PIWORLD providing investor videos/podcasts to retail investors. Tamzin is now a full-time investor and believes, anyone with an interest in business and their personal finance can invest. It just takes time and discipline.
Host:
Heather Benjamin, Chair of ShareSoc
Following an executive career with Centrica, ultimately as Chief Procurement Officer, Heather has held a range of Chair and Non-Executive Director roles across private, public and voluntary organisations. She has worked for organisations with growth agendas across multiple sectors including financial services, water, the arts and the health and voluntary sector. She is presently an Independent NED for BlueLight Commercial, collaborating with police and fire forces across England and Wales to transform their commercial and procurement functions, and Chair of Everyturn – a mental health charity and Vice President of The Leaders Club which networks with senior leaders.
Heather is passionate about increasing the number of women individual investors to further improve the diversity of experience across the sector.
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