Dexia Microcredit Fund

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Dexia Microcredit Fund (BlueOrchard)

Key Features

  • Country of incorporation: Luxembourg
  • Year founded: 1998
  • Legal Status: SICAV (Société d’Investissement à Capital Variable)-Part B
  • Fund Assets: USD 161,837,903 ( as of 2007-02-06)
  • Fund Assets Allocated to MF Investments: USD 107,994,790 (as of 2007-02-06)
  • Number of active MF investment: 105 ( as of 2007-02-06)
  • Area of Operation: Globals
  • Participant(s)/Backer(s)/Investor(s): BlueOrchard Finance S.A. – Fund Manager, Dexia, a Belgium/French commercial bank

Brief Description

The Fund is offered by Dexia, a Belgium/French commercial bank. Founded in 1996, Dexia’s lines of business include public project financing and credit enhancement, retail financial services, and investment management services. Assets under management are EUR 389.2 billion. Dexia contracts BlueOrchard Finance s.a., a Swiss asset manager which specializes in microfinance, to manage the Fund. The founding date of BlueOrchard is March 2001 and total assets under current management are USD 270 million $. Fund description posted on MIX, a World Bank informational clearing house, states that Dexia is “the first commercial investment fund designed to refinance microfinance institutions specialized in financial services to small companies in emerging markets.” Investors in the Fund include “private banking clients, institutional investors and funds of funds,” the names of which are not publicly available.


Contact Information

BlueOrchard Finance s.a., a microfinance investment manager: 32 Rue de Malatrex, Genève 1201, Switzerland, +41 22 339 0890, info@blueorchard.ch

Mr. Jean-Philippe De Schrevel, Founder and Managing Director. Tel: +41 22 339 0890, jean-philippe@blueorchard.ch.

Ms. Lisa Sherk, Director of Analysts Team, Tel: +41 22 339 0890, lisa@blueorchard.ch

Link on MIX Market

http://www.mixmarket.org/en/supply/supply.show.profile.asp?token=&ett=307

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