Client case study
Rabobank Pension Fund The Netherlands
Bernard Walschots, CIO:
“An innovative and cost-effective derivatives strategy has enabled us to prevent Rabobank Pension Fund from running into underfunding as a result of the market turbulence experienced in 2008. The strategy, which was carefully developed and implemented in conjunction with Cardano, is in line with the balanced and prudent policy the fund is implementing on behalf of its members and sponsor.”
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Rabobank Pension Fund administers the pensions of employees and former employees of Rabobank. The assets under management are approximately €10 billion.
De Eendragt Pensioen The Netherlands
Philip Menco, Director:
"Cardano’s high quality of service doesn't make the company slow to respond. De Eendragt is a highly innovative insurer and we have found Cardano to be an excellent partner in helping us to develop custom-made strategies and then implement them in practice.”
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De Eendragt is a life insurance company. The fund manages the pensions of employees in a variety of sectors (including the paper industry) and insures the pensions of more than 14.000 people of 23 companies and in the non-active depot. The total assets under management amount to roughly €1 billion.
The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX) The Netherlands
Arthur Arnold, CEO (FMO):
“Cardano is the ideal entrepreneurial partner, the perfect choice to help set up a world-class innovation like TCX. The Cardano culture focuses on innovative Risk Management concepts that are easy to put into practice.”
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TCX is a special purpose fund with a focused mandate to provide (in its initial phase, exclusively to its investors) currency and interest rate hedging financial instruments in developing country currencies. Its mandate is to focus on currencies and maturities not readily available in the local or international markets.
FMO, founded in 1970, was established by the Dutch government, Dutch private sector and Dutch employers and employee organizations. FMO is the entrepreneurial development bank.