Intelligence: A question of diversity

Studies have shown diverse management teams achieve higher revenues due to innovation and discrimination claims can be costly. As the Dive In festival kicks off at Lloyd's and around the world, Edmund Tirbutt investigates if the insurance industry is achieving its diversity goals.

If an insurance company’s board lacks an appropriate level of diversity, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the organisation concerned is overtly sexist, racist or homophobic. But it does mean it has