This article provides coverage of a new agenda for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) investing (SDGI) that is focused on addressing the SDGs by increasing the amount of institutional and private capital allocated toward financing them. The group of 18 major Dutch financial institutions that is developing the agenda "includes the asset managers for the €179bn healthcare pension fund PFZW and €372bn civil service pension scheme ABP, and insurance companies and banks." The article goes on to discuss elements of the agenda in more detail, and also mentions how the institutions' recommendations for SDGI action are included in a report that was presented to Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, at the GIIN Investor Forum in Amsterdam in December.

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