The Luxembourg Fund Labelling Agency (LuxFLAG), a microfinance investment vehicle (MIV) and environment-related investment vehicle (EIV) certification organization, recently announced that Mr Damian von Stauffenberg, the founder of US-based microfinance rating agency MicroRate, has been named to the eligibility committee of LuxFLAG’s Microfinance Label [1].
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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Austria’s Absolute Portfolio Management Loans $11m to Microfinance Institutions Through Vision Microfinance Funds, Including $1.5m to Pro Mujer Bolivia, $1.5m to PRIDE Tanzania, $750k Renewed to FINCA Tanzania
In December 2012, Dual Return-Vision Microfinance and Dual Return-Vision Microfinance Local Currency, two funds managed by Austria-based asset management company Absolute Portfolio Management (APM), disbursed a total equivalent to USD 11.75 million in loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide, including MFIs in Latin America and Africa.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Absolute Portfolio Management Loans $22m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Worldwide, Including $2m to Costa Rican MFI National Cooperative of Educators (Coopenae), $1m Renewed to FINCA Ecuador
During November, Dual Return-Vision Microfinance and Dual Return-Vision Microfinance Local Currency, two funds managed by Austria-based investment and asset management company Absolute Portfolio Management (APM), issued the equivalent of USD 22 million in loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) globally, with much of the funds going to MFIs in Latin America and Asia.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MicroRate Launches Web-Based Impact Investing Platform Luminis
MicroRate, a US-based microfinance rating agency, with funding from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Fund Labeling Agency (LuxFLAG), a non-profit fund certification agency based in Luxembourg, has launched the full version of Luminis, an online analytical platform on microfinance funds.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Luxembourg Fund Labeling Agency (LuxFLAG) Awards First Microfinance Label to Azure Global Microfinance Fund, responsAbility Financial Inclusion Fund
The Luxembourg Fund Labeling Agency (LuxFLAG), an organization aiming to increase transparency for investors wishing to make responsible investments in the fields of microfinance and the environment, has recently given the LuxFLAG Microfinance Label to two Swiss microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) for the first time: the Azure Global Microfinance Fund SICAV-SIF and responsAbility SICAV Financial Inclusion Fund.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Vision’s Dual Return Fund Loans $6.2m to Microfinance Institutions in Latin America, Africa, Central Asia
Absolute Portfolio Management GmbH, an Austrian investment company, has reported that the Dual Return Fund – Vision Microfinance, a sub-fund of Absolute’s Vision Microfinance, loaned the equivalent of USD 2 million to KazMicroFinance of Khazakstan and the equivalent of USD 4.2 million to unnamed microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Uruguay and Benin.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Dual Return Fund of Vision Microfinance Loans $1.5m to Microfinance Institutions in Colombia, Dominican Republic
Absolute Portfolio Management GmbH, an Austrian investment company that specializes in microfinance, recently reported that the Dual Return Fund – Vision Microfinance Local Currency, a sub-fund of Absolute’s Vision Microfinance that provides loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) exclusively in local currencies, made debt investments totaling the equivalent of USD 1.5 million in unnamed MFIs in Colombia and the Dominican Republic [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $3m to Gata Daku of the Philippines; Koperasi Mitra Dhuafa (Komida) of Indonesia; and Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) AMRET, Sathapana and Thaneakea Phum Cambodia Limited (TPC)
responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling the equivalent of USD 3.06 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, the Philippines and Indonesia [1].