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Just breathe.
As I raced towards the Pavilion Café in Victoria Park stressed and cursing myself for arranging another meeting in an already full day, I...
Diversity is for life, not just for Christmas
This article first appeared in Investment Week, 20th June 2018.In 2015, the only type of diversity the industry had thought about was in ...
In The Press: On the Presidents Club
Writing in The Telegraph, City Hive’s Bev Shah revealed The Truth About What Goes on Behind Closed Doors in The City, following the Presi...
In The Press: Bev Shah in Money Marketing Gender P
In the Money Marketing article Weighed Down: Figures Reveal Full Extent of Gender Pay Gap Across Investment Profession, he stated that th...
In The Press: Bev Shah in FTfm, Talking Diversity
FTfm’s page-3 story Fund Giants Accused of Withholding Diversity Data questioned the unwillingness of some of the world’s largest investm...
In The Press: Talking F word with Investment Week
In her regular opinion column for Investment Week, Bev Shah tackles what has previously been considered an almost unspeakable word on the...
Bev Shah: Let's discuss the F-Word
This article first appeared in Investment Week, 10th May, 2018Historically, flexible working has wrongly been seen as a sign of a lack of...
Death of the queen bee?
Female bosses often get a bad wrap. From Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (alle...
The lioness's den: outside looking in
How does it feel as a woman to walk into a room full of men in a business context? Is it intimidating, overpowering, frightening or a cha...
Father Figure: Dad Chat
I find male company stiflingly awkward and unpleasant. I think beer tastes of coins, my knowledge of football is sketchy, and ‘banter’ gi...
Bev Shah: We need to fix the investment management hiring process
This article first appeared in Investment Week, 20th March, 2018 This week, I am taking a closer look at the recruitment process in inve...
City Hive's Shah: Why we must get on the next generation's radar to improve diversity
This article first appeared in Investment Week, 21st February, 2018As part of the debate about how to increase diversity in the asset and...
The truth about what goes on in the City behind closed doors
This article first appeared in The Telegraph, 26th June, 2018. I started in the city in 1999, as a fresh-faced intern at Lehman brothers....