Developing Your Sustainable Investing Strategy
In recent years, sustainable and impact investing has solidified itself as an investment style and not simply a force for good. Currently, about one in four dollars of professionally managed assets is in a sustainable-labeled strategy.
The rise in popularity has been accompanied by increasing complexity, underscoring the importance of a methodical and thoughtful investment approach. It is our goal to help you develop a sustainable investing strategy that matches your investment objectives with your sustainability goals by leveraging data, strategies, and research.
The publication, Developing Your Sustainable Investing Strategy, from the PWM Sustainable Solutions Group at Goldman Sachs, outlines a five-step process you can use to navigate this ever-evolving sustainable investing landscape and establish a strategy to help you reach your long-term investment goals.
The steps are as follows:
1. Educate
We believe a successful sustainable investing strategy starts with a strong baseline understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities sustainable and impact investing present.
2. Clarify
We work with our clients to define and document the values most important to them and convert that value set into portfolio-level objectives.
3. Implement
We help each client achieve both their financial and sustainability goals through bespoke implementation; there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to sustainable investing.
4. Report
We provide custom portfolio analytics to show the relative impact of implementation decisions made in the portfolio.
5. Evolve
We perform ongoing monitoring of the portfolio to ensure values-alignment and performance objectives are met and to address any new sustainability-related risks that may arise.
Please contact your Goldman Sachs team for access to the full publication.
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