In this Thomson Reuters Foundation article, author Mark Haefele of UBS Global Wealth Management details a discussion of impact investing at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, which was largely focused on using the practice as a tool to support the SDGs. Haefele pinpoints several factors currently preventing impact investing from reaching its full potential and proposes ways of mitigating these roadblocks. He concludes by stating that work by the WEF and other organizations to strengthen investment standards and increase awareness of “opportunities to do well while doing good” can draw more private investors to the space and eventually help to close the current SDG funding gap.

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