Overcoming barriers to natural capital investing

As the market for natural capital investment grows, what approach should pension schemes be taking? How can these opportunities fit into existing portfolios? And how can you overcome the obstacles that might get in your way?

Kana Earth is a tech platform that bridges technology and nature for high-impact natural capital investments. They recently published a structured framework in collaboration with Aberdeen Investments, Gresham House and Rebalance Earth, for institutional investors interested in natural capital.

Join Andy Creak of Kana Earth with leading natural capital experts Eoin McDonald of Gresham House and Rob Gardner of Rebalance Earth to hear how schemes can approach natural capital and why now is the right time to do so.

We’ll also explore the language and stories of this new kind of investing – how we talk to each other, our advisers, members, sponsors, and the wider world.

We’d love to hear your experience, questions, challenges and concerns – over a delicious breakfast.

This event is ideal for trustees of UK pension schemes.

Eoin McDonald

Eoin has over 12 years of experience in institutional natural capital investment. Before joining Gresham House, he was Managing Director at specialist investment management firm GreenAgCapital, where he developed investment strategies and led fundraising across vertically integrated investments within the food and agriculture sector. Previously he worked on Nuveen Natural Capital’s farmland division, and Insight Investment’s global farmland fund.

Rob Gardner

Rob is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rebalance Earth, the UK’s largest dedicated Natural Capital asset manager. Formerly Investment Director at St. James’s Place and Co-Founder of Redington, Mallowstreet, and RedSTART, he believes finance can be a force for good. His mission is now on making Nature an investible asset class to help deliver financial wellbeing in a world worth living in.

Andy Creak

Andy is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded several disruptive platforms in the asset management industry, including CoFunds and rplan. He now brings this expertise to Kana Earth, building the digital infrastructure for institutional investment in nature.