Stephanie Niven is a Global Sustainable Equity Portfolio Manager at Ninety One. She started her career as an equity analyst and subsequently held a series of portfolio management roles.  She was previously an ambassador for the Diversity Project and sits on the Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest.

Our conversation traces Stephanie’s love of sport, and water polo in particular, and we discuss how that primed her for a career in investing.  We dig in then to what is sustainable equity and what sustainable investing means to her today, tackling head on the headwinds that this strategy is facing.

Because this is a subject that is core to the mission and purpose of Ninety One we also cover culture in an investment team, how to nurture it and how to know when it is working.

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