PGGM’s Gert-Jan Sikking on how the SDI Asset Owner Platform aims to create a standard

At PGGM, our roots are in the care and welfare sector – and together with our largest client, the Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) – we represent the financial future of people who work in this sector in The Netherlands. We look – together with our clients – for opportunities where we can increase our investments in companies and projects that also have a positive contribution, through their products and services, to global sustainability challenges as defined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We call these investments Sustainable Development Investments, SDIs. Together with our ESG analyses, which focus on the internal behaviour of companies, we believe we can realise our ambition to contribute to a liveable world for the pension participants of our clients.

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