Community
for all

In support of our wider responsibility aims, our goal is to be an employer of choice and deliver enduring, responsible wealth creation for our stakeholders.

We have a long-standing commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion in our business and acknowledge that we need to make further progress.

Mission

Our mission is to foster and promote a culture of inclusion that celebrates all forms of diversity, enabling our people to maximise their potential, whilst encouraging innovation and creativity so we can become an employer of choice, support our wider responsibility aims, and deliver the best holistic returns for our clients.

Employee network groups

Mental health & wellbeing

"All things mental health and wellbeing"

Multi generation

“Our Multi Generation Network is all inclusive – whatever your age, we want to support you”

Race & ethnicity

“Celebrating diversity, empowering voices, bridging cultures and inspiring unity”

Families & returners

“Families and Returners: Making work work for everyone”

Gender

“Equality for success”

Allied

“Creating community and belonging for our LGBTQ+ colleagues and their allies”

Enable

“Embracing all abilities for a sustainable future”

Other support groups

Supporting a workplace that prioritises mental wellbeing.

The role of a Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) is to be a point of contact for an employee who is experiencing a mental health issue or emotional distress. This integration could range from having an initial conversion through to supporting the person to get appropriate help for someone who may be developing a mental health issue and requires supporting. We’re focused on providing ongoing training to our MHFA’s so that they can continue to provide support to colleagues in the workplace.

Creating an environment where employees feel confident enough to ask for support and adjustments at work.

FHL has signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and achieved Menopause Friendly Accreditation. Providing a supportive workplace where employees feel able to talk about their symptoms and seek reasonable workplace adjustments as they transition through the menopause. Women are a critical part of our workforce, but the gender imbalance, particularly in senior roles, remains. Normalising conversations around menopause in the workplace is an important step towards retaining and attracting senior women and helping women to progress their careers at FHL. We provide guidance for employees and line managers via workshops, our dedicated Menopause Information intranet page, the Menopause Toolkit, and the Menopause Support Group.

Breaking down the stigma around talking about men’s physical and mental health.

Federated Hermes celebrates Men’s Health Week annually during the second week of June and aims to heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages. Men’s Health Week helps to break down the stigma around talking about both physical and mental health issues, which can prevent men from seeking help when they need it. Through the work of its Men’s Health Champions, Federated Hermes offers its employees access to a range of resources, provided by the Men’s Health Forum, to assist them in finding support for any men’s health challenges they may be experiencing.

Gender diversity

We are committed to supporting a fair and ethical workplace for all our colleagues. We welcome the attention that the gender pay gap reporting regulations have given to gender and wider D&I agendas, and we will continue to report annually on our mean and median pay and bonus gaps.

In doing so, we will analyse the data to better understand the factors causing our pay gap, as well as what needs to be done to close it. For more information, including this year’s Gender Pay Report, please click here.

Gender diversity: 2030 targets

Firm-wide

40-50%

0 % in 2024

Board

40-50%

0 % in 2024

Senior management

40-50%

0 % in 2024

Women in Finance Charter

Federated Hermes Limited remains fully committed to supporting the Women in Finance Charter and its objective of attaining gender balance across all levels of financial services.

We have seen increases in the proportion of women at firm-wide and senior management level (by 2% each in the last year).  We have also maintained our 40% Board level representation achieved in 2023.

Looking forward, we are working to the following goals by end of June 2030:

  • Increase our senior management female representation to within a 40-50% range
  • Increase or maintain our board female representation within a 40-50% range
  • Increase or maintain our overall firm-wide representation within a 40-50% range.

We feel that these new goals better align with the market and societal conditions in which we operate and the flows of talent into and across our industry.   We continue to work with our external partnerships to address these shared challenges and opportunities.

Advocating D&I in the asset management industry

We are members of a number of networks and forums – including the Diversity Project, the 30% Club, InterInvest, and Business Disability Forum, City Hive, Change the Race Ratio, BITC (Business in the Community). We seek further opportunities to improve diversity and inclusion; working in this industry should be attractive and accessible for all.