Last year I posted a blog called “The new IRR - Impact, Risk and Return”. With almost 900 viewers, this blog is my best read post to date and triggered many enthusiastic reactions. In essence, I advocated a new IRR: looking at every investment taking into account its Impact, Risk and Return.
"Influential people from emerging market countries make up a far smaller share than emerging markets’ 85% share of the world’s population, their 75% of global land mass or their 55% share of global GDP."
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for impact investing. Really?
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for talking about impact investing. Really!
Na het succes van de eerste close van het NN FMO Emerging Markets Loans Fund zijn afgelopen week de eerste investeringen gedaan. Maureen Schlejen, hoofd institutionele relaties NN Investment Partners en Yvonne Bakkum, Managing Director van FMO Investment Management gaan in op de achtergronden van deze succesvolle launch.
Vistaar Financial Services was the idea of two first-generation entrepreneurs who had witnessed first-hand the lack of both financial and non-financial support for smaller enterprises and businesses across the country. It was clear that a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it came to financing wasn’t sustainable or practical in the long run; to truly help the local economy boom, customized products needed to be offered.
De agronomische ondersteuning die wordt geboden door Agri Commodities & Finance (ACF) omvat het efficiënt gebruik van kunstmest, bodembeoordeling en opslag en transport na de oogst, waardoor de boeren de middelen en kennis krijgen om hun opbrengst te maximaliseren. Een belangrijke pijler van ACF is het verbeteren van de levensstandaard van boeren in hun toeleveringsketen.
This project is situated in the south-eastern part of Pakistan in the province of Sindh. Its provincial capital, Karachi, is the largest city of Pakistan and among the world’s largest megacities. The solar project financed by FMO makes use of innovative bi-facial solar panels, which increase total energy generation. This is the first time that bi-facial solar panels are utilized in Pakistan
The irrigation works of the Olmos Irrigation Project were completed in November 2014. Since then Pampa Baja was able to develop their land in Olmos into fertile soils generate additional substantial employment opportunities for the local community with 500 permanent and 1200 seasonal jobs.
Onlangs begon Access Bank haar horizon te verbreden om beter de mmkb-sector te bedienen als onderdeel van haar pan-Afrikaanse groeistrategie. Zo breidde de bank haar ondersteuning in het retail segment uit om via het scheppen van banen de lokale economie te ondersteunen, en werd ze een koploper op het gebied van vrouwenfinanciering en -dienstverlening.