Blog: Cracking the class ceiling
As socio-economic diversity is expected to be the next front for inclusion, with a government-backed socio-economic diversity taskforce currently surveying firms in the City of London, Raymond Silverstein, partner at Browne Jacobson, looks at how the insurance market has historically fared on this issue.
It is an almost universally acknowledged truth that for decades the insurance industry, and the London market in particular, has been an elite club community of predominantly middle-aged white British
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