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  • Derivative Markets and Sustainability

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    Our September 2020 article introduced concepts that trustees should be aware of when assessing the sustainability implications of their scheme’s investments in derivatives. To recap, these considerations for trustees fall into three broad categories. This article further explores these themes.

  • PRI Reporting

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    PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. Last Friday we achieved an important milestone: We submitted the PRI-report 2021 for investors. Here you can read some of the highlights of our 2020 work on sustainable investing.

  • Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) endorses Impact Investing Institute Principles

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    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.

  • GuarantCo: “Doing our best to make ourselves superfluous”

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    “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.

  • “Every dollar that we swap or hedge is a dollar less risk in development finance”

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    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?

  • Impact investing: a viable and reliable asset class

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    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?

  • Claire Bowyer appointed to the Cardano Group Management Board

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    The Cardano Group has today announced the appointment of Claire Bowyer to the Group’s Management Board effective immediately.

  • Will Martindale joins as Group Head of Sustainability

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    The Cardano Group has appointed Will Martindale to the newly created role of Group Head of Sustainability.

  • Cardano promotes Dawn Thirley, Group HR Director, to Partner

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

  • “Be prepared to fix it or pay for it”

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    Managing Director Michael Bushnell explains that within the Cardano Group the role of Cardano Advisory 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.”

  • Cardano Group appoints Emma Hill as Group Brand

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    The Cardano Group, the pensions risk and investment management specialist, today announces the appointment of Emma Hill in the newly created role of Group Brand & Marketing Director.