Mental health: Tackling the City's 'last taboo'

Business leaders urge industry to raise more awareness

As "the last big taboo in the City", tackling mental health issues is not about firms adopting big change programmes, but it needs to "start with a conversation", according to three heads of business operating in financial services.

Speaking on a panel at Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association's (PIMFA) most recent annual summit, Quilter chief executive Paul Feeney, Mark Twigg, executive director of public affairs and communications consultancy Cicero and Michael Heyworth, executive director, head of client delivery at Coutts shared their personal experiences while laying out how each of their businesses were supporting wellbeing in the workplace. The asset managers tackling the stigma of talking about mental health in the workplace The debate, entitled 'Leadership and wellbeing', took pl...