Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance

Sustainable Development Investing: Creating a scalable SDI-aligned index

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Align Finance and Investment

This report, completed by Prof. Alexander Bassen and other researchers at the University of Hamburg, makes a strong case for the creation of a listed equity index aligned with GISD's Sustainable Development Investing (SDI) definition. Using existing data, the researchers were able to translate the definition’s decision tree into an index of global listed equities.