Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators (SD-KPIs) are the three most important sustainability indicators for the financial performance of 68 industries. From 2004 until now, Dr. Axel Hesse
(SD-M^®) has elaborated the SD-KPI Standard 2010-2014, which is protected by copyright. "Institutional Shareowner" summarized the development.
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SD-KPIs have been called a "minimum reporting standard" for sustainability information in annual reports/management commentaries of companies by the German Federal Environment Ministry according to the EU accounting directives and several laws of member states. SD-M^® consults companies about Best Practice for SD-KPIs.

SD-KPIs offer institutional investors the opportunity to generate portfolios with a high outperformance in the long term. This was evaluated by leading European pension funds (cf. page 18) with Euro 460 billions of assets under management. SD-M^® consults asset owners and asset managers regarding the integration of SD-KPIs in mandates and products under the registered trademarks SD-KPInvest^® and SD-KPIndex^®.