We need more female advisers

There are few issues affecting the financial advice profession that I feel more strongly about than this.

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of interviewing Blair duQuesnay for our sister blog, The Evidence-Based Investor. Based in New Orleans, Blair is generally recognised as one of the rising young stars of the US advisory profession. Here she explains, among other things, why she thinks women are so under-represented in the financial sector and what can be done about it:

Gender imbalance in investment management needs urgent attention

On a closely related subject, I can also recommend this excellent post by Preston McSwain, an adviser in Massachusetts and one of our clients at Regis Media:

‘Lehman Sisters’ — what might have happened had Lehman Brothers been run by women