Upcoming Events
GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK- INVESTOR FORUM 2022 Oct 12-13
Wednesday 12 October 2022 The largest in-person global gathering of impact investors is coming together in The Hague. full story
Team members of FMO Investment Management attend and speak at various events througout the year.
Very occasionally we organize our own. A selection of these are listed below.
Last year I posted a blog called “The new IRR - Impact, Risk and Return”. With almost 900 viewers, this blog is my best read post to date and triggered many enthusiastic reactions. In essence, I advocated a new IRR: looking at every investment taking into account its Impact, Risk and Return.
"Influential people from emerging market countries make up a far smaller share than emerging markets’ 85% share of the world’s population, their 75% of global land mass or their 55% share of global GDP."
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for impact investing. Really?
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for talking about impact investing. Really!
Na het succes van de eerste close van het NN FMO Emerging Markets Loans Fund zijn afgelopen week de eerste investeringen gedaan. Maureen Schlejen, hoofd institutionele relaties NN Investment Partners en Yvonne Bakkum, Managing Director van FMO Investment Management gaan in op de achtergronden van deze succesvolle launch.
Vistaar Financial Services was the idea of two first-generation entrepreneurs who had witnessed first-hand the lack of both financial and non-financial support for smaller enterprises and businesses across the country. It was clear that a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it came to financing wasn’t sustainable or practical in the long run; to truly help the local economy boom, customized products needed to be offered.
This family-owned supply chain manager in agriculture products - founded in 1965 - was not severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The main reason lies in the fact that the consumer demand for Tiryaki’s products – mainly staple foods like wheat, flour, edible oil, lentils and rice - did not decline. On the contrary, the demand increased.
This project is situated in the south-eastern part of Pakistan in the province of Sindh. Its provincial capital, Karachi, is the largest city of Pakistan and among the world’s largest megacities. The solar project financed by FMO makes use of innovative bi-facial solar panels, which increase total energy generation. This is the first time that bi-facial solar panels are utilized in Pakistan
The irrigation works of the Olmos Irrigation Project were completed in November 2014. Since then Pampa Baja was able to develop their land in Olmos into fertile soils generate additional substantial employment opportunities for the local community with 500 permanent and 1200 seasonal jobs.
Recently, Access Bank began to broaden its horizon to better service the MSME sector as part of its pan-African growth strategy. For example, the bank expanded its support in the retail segment to support job creation within the local economy, and became a frontrunner in women finance and services.