MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: C-Quadrat’s Dual Return Funds Loan $9.6m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Paraguay, Zimbabwe

During April 2016, Austria’s C-Quadrat Asset Management GmbH issued loans worth the equivalent of USD 9.6 million via its two Dual Return Funds to unspecified microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Paraguay and Zimbabwe. USD 2 million of this total was invested in an MFI based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which has 181 service points and provides financial services to clients in rural regions of the country. Financial information on the organization is not available.

C-Quadrat Asset Management GmbH is an Austria-based provider of investment services in microfinance. The firm’s Dual Return Fund-Vision Microfinance and Dual Return Fund-Vision Microfinance Local Currency were created in 2006 and report combined assets of USD 286 million under management as of May 2016. C-Quadrat Asset Management is a unit of Austrian fund group C-Quadrat, which manages assets equivalent to EUR 5.3 billion (USD 5.9 billion) as of May 2016.

By Jason Wei, Research Associate

About C-Quadrat Asset Management

Formerly known as Absolute Portfolio Management GmbH, C-Quadrat Asset Management GmbH is an Austria-based provider of investment and advisory services in microfinance. The firm’s Dual Return Fund-Vision Microfinance and Dual Return Fund-Vision Microfinance Local Currency were created in 2006 and report combined assets of USD 287 million under management as of April 2016. C-Quadrat Asset Management is a unit of Austrian fund group C-Quadrat, which manages assets equivalent to EUR 5.4 billion (USD 6.1 billion) as of September 2015.

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