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  • Local currency loans should be impact 'norm'

    14 November 2022

    Local currency hedging is "becoming the norm" among frontier and emerging market impact investors, according to Cardano Development.

  • $39trn investor group urges governments to step up climate action

    13 September 2022

    533 institutional investors managing a total of about $39 trillion in assets have urged governments to enact climate policies to leverage private finance.

  • The future of sustainable finance is political

    21 February 2022

    Wrangling over the EU Taxonomy shows the future of sustainable finance is inherently political, argues Will Martindale

  • Big Society Capital, Cardano to invest up to £195m in affordable housing

    16 February 2022

    Cardano and Big Society Capital are targeting investments of up to £195 million ($265 million) in real estate fund strategies to address the shortage of affordable housing in the UK.

  • Cardano aims to combat 'tremendous' greenwashing risk

    15 February 2022

    Cardano is developing a framework to describe how investors influence decarbonisation, to try to tackle the "tremendous" risk of 'greenwashing' presented by net-zero strategies,...

  • Investors dispute FCA labelling of sustainable products

    11 January 2022

    Cardano and UKSIF have raised concerns about the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s proposed definitions of sustainable products.

  • Actiam appoints CEO after Cardano completes acquisition

    07 January 2022

    UK-based Cardano Group has completed the acquisition of Dutch asset manager Actiam from insurance and reinsurance group Athora Netherlands.

  • Cardano acquires £18.5bn sustainable investors ACTIAM

    21 October 2021

    Pensions advisers Cardano has acquired sustainable investors ACTIAM, which manages £18.5 billion ($26 billion) of assets...

  • UK regulator urged to bring forward asset manager TCFD disclosure obligations

    13 September 2021

    Large asset managers and life insurers in the UK should be required to make climate-related disclosures next year, the country's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been urged.

  • Introducing 'instrumental impact' and 'ultimate ends impact'

    23 July 2021

    Freshfields this week released a report on the legal implications of impact investing, which also sought to introduce new terminology to the investment niche. Peter Cripps reports