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CAF appoints new head of investment services
Howard Lake | 3 February 2004 | News
Nicholas Rickard is to join CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) as its new Head of Investment Services.
Nicholas joins CAF from Barclays Global Investors (BGI) where, as Head of Charities, he helped to develop Charitrack, “the voluntary sector’s fastest growing Common Investment Tracker Fund”, according to CAF. During his time with the company, BGI became the UK’s second largest charity asset manager, handling £3.5 billion of charity investments.
In line with CAF’s mission to increase resources for charities, Nicholas
will focus on broadening the range of investment products available to them.
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He will head up CAF’s Investment Services Department, whose products include the CAF UK Equity Growth Fund, the CAF Bond Income Fund, and the CAF Socially Responsible Fund.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.