Overview:
BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund invests directly in microfinance institutions (MFIs) and regional funds.
Description:
The BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund was established in 2007 to provide capital injections in the microfinance industry. Approximately 80 percent of funding is from European and US institutional investors and 20 percent is from individual investors. The main focus of the fund is to work with leading regulated, fast growing microfinance banks through diret participations in their capital or through the creation of holding companies.
Microfinance Information Exchange:
http://www.mixmarket.org/funders/blueorchard-private-equity-fund/structu…
Organization’s Website:
http://www.blueorchard.com/jahia/Jahia/Products_1/pid/232
Just the Facts:
Country of Incorporation: Luxembourg
Year Founded: 2007
Fund Assets (as of day/month/year): USD 131.1 million (as of 31/December/2008)?
Assets invested in MFIs (as of day/month/year): USD 22 million (as of 31/December2008)
Area of Operation: global
Number of MFI investments (as of day/month/year): 8 (as of 31/December/2008)
Participant(s)/Backer(s)/Investor(s): BlueOrchard Capital, BlueOrchard Investments
Currency: USD
Instrument Type: Equity
Investment Horizon: 10 year
Fund Manager: BlueOrchard Capital (under Jean-Philippe de Schrevel)
Contact Information:
BlueOrchard Investments
32 rue de Malatrex
1201 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 22 596 4750
Fax: +41 22 596 4751
infoinvest@blueorchard.com
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Additional Resources:
BlueOrchard Annual Review
http://www.blueorchard.com/jahia/Jahia/pid/324
BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund Takes 14% Equity Stake in XacBank Holding Company TenGer Financial Group, Allowing for Partial Exit of Unnamed Shareholder (November 2009)
https://www.microcapital.org/press-release-blueorchard-private-equity-fun…
BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund Invests Rs 500 million ($10.2 million) in Asmitha Microfin (September 2009)
https://www.microcapital.org/approved-adjustment-microcapitalorg-story-bl…
MEET THE BOSS: Jean-Pierre Lumpp of BlueOrchard Finance (June 2009)
https://www.microcapital.org/meet-the-boss-jean-pierre-klumpp-of-blueorch…
BlueOrchard Private Equity fund launched (February 2008)
http://www.blueorchard.com/jahia/webdav/site/blueorchard/shared/Resource…
Authored by Kenny Kline, Research Associate
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