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We’re proud of the progress we’ve made on our sustainable investment objectives in 2020. We also want to take this opportunity to congratulate PRI on their updated reporting framework. The questions have helped us to make progress on our sustainability objectives. We look forward to working with PRI in the weeks and months ahead. Here […]

At the beginning of 2021, a new phenomenon percolated its way through the consciousness of financial markets – the democratisation of the ‘short-squeeze’. The ‘short-squeeze’ itself isn’t a new thing. It’s an old term that refers to the actions of one or more market participants acting in a manner than forces shortsellers of a security […]

The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) endorses the Impact Investing Principles for Pensions from the Impact Investing Institute in partnership with Pensions for Purpose. The Principles are a set of guidelines on how to initiate, implement, review and measure an impact strategy. Supporter statement: “The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) aims to increase […]

“Our ultimate aim is to reduce poverty in low-income countries by becoming a centre of excellence for local-currency credit solutions for infrastructure finance.” Says Nicole Xu of GuarantCo. They provide guarantees for infrastructure investments in low- to lower-middle income countries. Read the full interview.

Impact investing is all about investing in order to generate a positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Cardano seeks to achieve this through a not-for-profit foundation called Cardano Development, which specialises in financial risk management for development finance. So how does it work in practice?

Analyst Amadeus Bringmann works for TCX, a company operating under the umbrella of Cardano Development whose core business lies in managing currency risk. TCX describes itself as ‘offering a global solution to currency risk in frontier markets’. But what exactly does that mean? And what’s in it for impact investors?

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.