Since the inception of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, there has been a universal call to action to ensure peace and prosperity across the UN’s 193 member states by 2030. From an economic perspective, these SDGs are a powerful tool for investors to apply sustainable thinking to their decision-making process and implement them into company engagement practices. But now that we are past the halfway point, we can’t help but ask, is the UN on track to meet their 2030 goal or not? On this episode of Disruptive Forces, Chris Kocinski, Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of U.S. High Yield, and Sarah Peasey, Director of European ESG Investing, return to the show with Anu Rajakumar to discuss how these 17 goals can be tangibly integrated into an investment process and applied as a framework for better outcomes in the future.
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