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Podcast: Why contributing to the SDGs is a do or die

Podcast: Why contributing to the SDGs is a do or die

06-01-2020 | Podcast

If investors ignore the challenges the SDGs represent, future growth will be much lower and much more erratic than it has been in the past. This will have an impact on valuations and, ultimately, the returns investors make, warns Taeke Wiersma, co-head of Credit Research, in our latest podcast episode. Wiersma discusses the opportunities that incorporating the SDGs into credit strategies offer and the process used at Robeco to assess the contribution companies are making to the achievement of these global objectives.

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