Des Fullam, Global Head of Product at Carne, describes how the global asset management industry can contribute to the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the added value of the finance industry in reaching SDG targets and the increase in popularity of impact investing through a decrease in barriers.

“The world cannot go on growing as it has been. While global imbalances like uneven growth, wealth inequality, and environmental degradation have generally raised living standards, unsustainable growth now puts future living standards at risk, and can imperil the welfare of the generations to come.” Not the words of a populist politician but the introduction to UBS’s White Paper on Mobilising Private Wealth for Public Good. Since the UN published its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDG”) in 2015 these have provided an additional focus for those wishing to put SDG investing at the heart of their investment decision making.