Banks in Europe—much like those in the US—are stepping away from many types of lending. Driven in part by stricter regulatory requirements, the retreat is expanding the opportunity set in private asset-based finance, a $6.3 trillion-and-growing market that provides much of the financing for the real economy.
Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) has just released their Outcomes dataset, a new data solution that enables investors to track how investments are contributing to sustainable outcomes over time. We look back at how their work has evolved over the last decade when PGGM initially developed the SDI framework with APG to align investments with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The work has and continues to facilitate greater transparency and comparability among investors.