HSBC GAM's Heyworth: Embracing mental health wellbeing initiatives are no longer a 'nice to have' for employers

Raising awareness: Mental Health Week

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Approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year, while one in six people in England alone will experience a common issue such as anxiety or depression in any given week.

Yet arguably the issue of mental health is not one that is raised often - or often enough - within the financial services industry. Mental health covers a huge variety of different types of psychological and emotional matters and there is a drive today for employers to embrace and understand mental wellbeing better in order to serve their employees better.  It is something Brian Heyworth, Global Head of Client Strategy at HSBC Global Asset Management, is helping to raise more awareness of having himself experienced mental health issues over a decade ago. "As an industry we have to ...

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