We are Cardano
Not the cryptocurrency, but a Rotterdam-based asset manager with a focus on risk management, asset management and pensions. We have been around since 2000 and with our pioneering spirit and expertise as a sustainable pension investor, we strive for better pension solutions for everyone. We are a bit stubborn and have a different view on financial markets and mathematical models. With a unique approach to risk, we challenge the status quo!
We help pension funds, insurers, banks and asset managers exceed the expectations of their participants and customers. We go beyond simply generating returns. With our services, our customers offer their participants or customers a high degree of pension security and convenience, while at the same time making a safe and sustainable world possible. In this way, we jointly contribute, as partners, to the quality of life of people.
An important trend in the market is that more and more investors are looking at the actual impact of their portfolio. How do you ensure that an investment yields more than just financial returns? It must lead to pension security and contribute positively to the transition to a sustainable world: creating impact. Together with our clients, we develop strategies for specific goals, with tailor-made solutions. Cardano helps to formulate policy on the impact the customer wants to make, ensures that this is possible through its solutions and reports on this so that it is clear what impact has actually been made.
Our people are our strength. Our specialists look at the bigger picture, understand the unruly context and goals of our customers. With their knowledge and innovative mindset, they solve complex problems. This enables our customers to offer their participants or customers more return, more impact, more simplicity and less risk. Every year, we let graduates write their thesis at Cardano and we have multiple junior vacancies for enthusiastic new colleagues.
At Cardano, various teams work with mathematicians, actuaries, econometricians, economists, physicists, quants, finance experts and all kinds of other specialists. We are relatively young, diverse, passionate about our profession and have teams with different nationalities. The Cardano Group now consists of 3 companies in the United Kingdom and 2 in the Netherlands. This brings us to 450 employees, EUR 60 billion under management for institutional investors and over EUR 100 billion in derivatives traded annually to manage interest rate, inflation, currency and equity risks for our clients. Despite our growth, one thing remains central: we strive for a robust, fair and stable pension system.
On June 11, 2024, it was announced that Mercer, part of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), reached an agreement to acquire Cardano.