Investment Themes
The UN Sustainable Development Goals & Our Themes
Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to investment opportunities provides us, our clients, and the wider industry, with a compelling means to contribute to sustainable development whilst aiming to achieve positive financial returns.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals
Frame a public policy agenda around which sustainable development policies, plans and programmes should be framed at a national level.
Provide investors across all regions with a thematic framework around which public policy, reform and development priorities will be focused, catalyzing demand for innovation and new or increased investment.
Help businesses align with global priorities: companies can use the SDGs as an overarching guide to shape and steer the development and implementation of their own strategies.
Create opportunities for investors to look at how they can productively allocate capital to organizations responding to this dynamic – e.g. through innovation and development of sustainable products, services and solutions.
Our sustainable & social themes
Are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), translated for use in a financial markets context.
Look to identify and categorise companies based on commercialized outputs, products and services addressing major social and economic needs.
Not only help capital flow toward those issuers delivering positive change but offer potential strong sources of earnings growth and financial return – giving force to the notion of ‘doing well by going good’.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments Sustainable Themes
Note: Use of the SDG logos does not imply UN endorsement.
Insights
23 June 2025
Multi-Asset
Multi asset
Market perspectives: Will the resilience of financial markets be undone by escalating geopolitical risks?
Market perspectives: Will the resilience of financial markets be undone by escalating geopolitical risks?
Investors continue to closely follow events in the Middle East – most recently the US’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
19 June 2025
Multi-Asset
Asset Allocation update - June 2025
Asset Allocation update - June 2025
Financial markets continue to display confidence that the trade
war remains on a de-escalating path, even as the deadline for
‘trade deals’ to be agreed with the US moves into focus.
18 June 2025
Fixed income
A bitter pill: what tariffs could mean for pharmaceutical firms and the wider healthcare industry
A bitter pill: what tariffs could mean for pharmaceutical firms and the wider healthcare industry
Although a drive to onshore manufacturing of pharmaceuticals is admirable, there could be some unintended consequences around price, availability and global relations.
Collaborative Insights and References
Aligned Columbia Threadneedle Investments Strategies
Social Bond Strategies
- UK Ethical & Sustainable Strategy
- Carbon Neutral Real Estate Fund
- European Sustainable Infrastructure Fund
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