Austria’s C-Quadrat Asset Management informed MicroCapital today that its Dual Return Vision Microfinance and Dual Return Vision Microfinance-Local Currency funds loaned a total approximately equivalent to USD 22 million during November to unspecified microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Paraguay and Sri Lanka.
USD 5.5 million of this total was disbursed to a Colombian MFI that was founded in 1986 to support low-income female entrepreneurs. According to C-Quadrat, the MFI has a “sustainable business model” and “actively participates in community initiatives and supports the rehabilitation of public spaces such as sport facilities.”
The Dual Return funds, which recently began offering sales to the public in Germany, have an aggregate total volume of USD 438 million as of November 30, 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.
Sources and Additional Resources
Information provided directly to MicroCapital by C-Quadrat.
Dual Return Funds Managed by C-Quadrat Loan $17m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines
https://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-dual-return-funds-managed-by-c-quadrat-loan-17m-to-microfinance-institutions-mfis-in-costa-rica-ghana-india-kenya-mexico-peru-the-philippines/
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