Sorca Kelly-Scholte is Head of Pensions Solutions and Advisory for EMEA at a large asset management firm. She trained as an actuary, and spent time as an investment consultant before assuming her current role. She is a frequent writer on the topic of institutional asset allocation, strategy and portfolio construction.
Our conversation covers her undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and how it taught her to think. We return to this when we discuss her current approach to asset allocation, particularly against the backdrop of a crisis, and how she is coaching her pension fund clients by reference to different models of best practice.
We spend some time on how she embraced the challenge of speaking in public, and the people and habits that enabled her to build her confidence. We also turn to the question of gender diversity in finance and Sorca shares her experience as well as her vision for how things can be better.
