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The Cardano Group, the pensions risk and investment management specialist, has today announced the appointment of Claire Bowyer to the Group’s Management Board effective immediately. Claire continues to be a Group Partner, a Director of Cardano UK, and the Group’s General Counsel. She will also continue to be responsible for the people leadership of Cardano […]

The Cardano Group, the pensions risk and investment management specialist, has appointed Will Martindale to the newly created role of Group Head of Sustainability. Will Martindale will be responsible for working across the business to accelerate the Cardano Group’s sustainability objectives. These objectives include contributing to a sustainable economy, Cardano’s pledge to reach net-zero investments […]

Banks, professional bodies, consultancies and investment managers will each be providing you with their house-view under the guise of them being predictions of what lies ahead in 2021. All will be working under the assumption that they offer a fair, sober and unbiased prognosis for the year ahead. They don’t. We have provided eight points […]

Cardano today announces the promotion of Dawn Thirley, Cardano’s Group HR Director, to Partner effective immediately.

Green bonds are hugely popular today, but how did they come into being? Christopher Flensborg, widely known as the ‘father of green bonds’, unravels the entire story: “At one point people started saying, ‘wow, there something’s going on here. We need to get into this.’” Resulting today in a green bond market representing some 700 billion euro in assets.

Managing Director Michael Bushnell explains that within the Cardano Group the role of Lincoln Pensions is to look for the potential issues that might arise in a sponsor company, so that the pension fund trustee is prepared for them. “Climate change and ESG factors give trustees a chance to positively influence the employer covenant in a way that is not generally possible.”

A Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) study sponsored by NOW: Pensions has revealed that women aged 25 will accumulate a workplace pension that is 20% less than men by the age of 65. what’s the reason for this gap and where there could be opportunity for policy interventions to narrow it?

ESG targets, green obligations, contributing to the UN’s climate goals. The foundation for Cardano Development was laid way back in 2005, long before “going green” became fashionable. Since then, this impact investor has grown into the largest collaboration platform for development banks in the world.

Despite the prominence of derivatives across UK pension scheme portfolios, the assessment of ESG factors in derivatives remains relatively nascent.

Twelve leading investment consulting firms in the UK have established the Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group, with the aim of seeking to improve sustainable investment practices across the investment industry.

It remains uncertain how the delicate process of restarting normal economic activity will proceed. But we can be sure that the range of possible outcomes is wider in the post-COVID global economy than it was in the pre-COVID one.