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Equal Opportunities and Diversity
Liontrust is an equal opportunities employer and prohibits unlawful and unfair discrimination.
We believe that a diverse and varied workforce is a great benefit to the organisation.
Although we do not set specific diversity targets, we seek to create,
through our culture and policies, a work environment that helps to bring
out the best in our employees. The company believes that a diverse
workforce promotes innovation and growth through independent
thinking and new ideas, as well as engaging existing and prospective
employees, partners and clients.
Liontrust’s Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policies outline that all
Liontrust employees (temporary and permanent), partners, contract
workers and job applicants are treated fairly and are offered equal
opportunity in selection, training, career development, promotion and
remuneration. Specifically, we aim to ensure that:
• we have access to the widest labour market and secure the best
employees for our needs;
• people are selected, promoted and treated equally, enabling us
to maximise potential to the benefit of individuals and the firm;
• we have employment procedures and practices which do
not discriminate on grounds of race (which includes colour,
nationality, and ethnic or national origins), sex, pregnancy and
maternity, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment,
disability, religion or beliefs, age or sexual orientation;
• we meet, as a minimum, our statutory obligations regarding
employment legislation;
• we communicate the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy
and responsibilities for achieving fairness and equality; and
• senior managers understand their responsibility for enforcing this
Policy and we all share responsibility for upholding it. During the
year, we recorded no incidents of discrimination.
The company is committed to accommodating differences in culture,
lifestyle and heritage. We are working to enhance this via an
Internship Programme, which offers employment to younger people
from diverse backgrounds, who may not have otherwise had the
opportunity to start their career in the industry. This programme
along with our recruitment practices allows us to enhance and
expand our workforce.
Opportunities for training and career development are made
equally available to all. Promotion within the company is based on
personal merit and the reasonable requirements of the job.
In order to further develop the existing workforce and as part
of a wider learning strategy, Liontrust encourages coaching and
mentoring opportunities. The development of a pipeline of talented
and diverse employees through both the internship programme
and through coaching and mentoring will be fundamental to
increasing diversity.
The Board regularly reviews the gender split across the company and
has asked management to address the issue of underrepresentation
of women in senior management. Liontrust has improved the
diversity of the Board over the last few years and will continue to
work to ensure the composition of the Board and the workforce as
a whole is representative of wider society.
As part of the Executive Directors’ strategic objectives, there is
a commitment to gender-balanced shortlists of candidates at the
beginning of a recruitment campaign.
As at 31 March 2020, Liontrust’s total of 163 employees/partners (including the Board) comprised
the following
76
46
Liontrust employees
76 males and 46 females
5
2
Liontrust Board Directors consist of
5 males and 2 females
31
3
Liontrust Members of the LLPs
31 males and 3 females
A summary of our Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Human Rights Policies is available on our website
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