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Sindhu Krishna
Phoenix Group
Chief Sustainable Investment Officer (until December 2024)
Description
Sindhu Krishna was the Chief Sustainable Investment Officer at the Phoenix Group until Dec 2024. Phoenix is UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business supporting 13 million customers, with around £300bn of assets under administration.
During her time, she led a team of 20 FTEs, shaping and leading the execution of the Group's 1-3 year & long-term Sustainable Investment Strategy including research on climate risk, nature & biodiversity, social factors.
Sindhu was responsible for implementation of cross functional enterprise activities/projects covering public and private markets. She led the design and launch of the custom “FTSE – Phoenix Climate Aware” index series. The construction follows core principles such as integrating the decarbonisation trajectory and inclusion of forward-looking data into investment decision making, ensuring that climate risk management and engaging for change are at the core. She led asset class specific research and analysis on sustainability factors; crafted the publicly disclosed taxonomy/classification framework for sustainable assets; the Group has invested over £1bn in private assets annually over the last three years in Sustainable assets aligned to this framework.
She was part of the Phoenix Investment team for nearly 13 years and prior to this worked in investments at Zurich Insurance Group. Sindhu is a CFA charter holder and holds an MBA from Warwick Business School. She was a Non-Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative.
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