Our Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2018 Stafford developed an assessment framework to evaluate how a potential investment contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The framework enables us to assess the alignment of portfolios across investment strategies with the 17 SDGs and their corresponding 169 targets.

Each investee company or asset is assigned one or more SDG targets. The alignment can be assessed as minimal, moderate or significant and categorised based on type of impact (business model, policy & initiatives or operations).

Overall, SDG contribution of the portfolio remained similar at the end of 2024, when compared to the end of 2023. Stafford’s investment teams continued to manage a variety of client mandates and fund products, that made a meaningful contribution to the SDGs.