Triodos Microfinance Fund – increasing access to financial services for the working poor in developing countries
Microfinance
Microfinance offers low-income households access to basic financial services. Because, like everyone else, people living in poverty need an inclusive range of financial services to run their businesses, build assets, and manage risks. Triodos Bank invests in microfinance to help develop a sustainable financial sector in developing countries.
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16 years' experience
"Triodos Bank has been a pioneering provider of capital to microfinance since 1994"
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5.9 million
"Total number of micro entrepreneurs reached by the microfinance institutions in our portfolio at year-end 2009"
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81 microfinance institutions
"Triodos Investment Management manages four funds that provide finance for around 80 microfinance institutions"
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Active Shareholder
"Through our funds, we're an active shareholder in 19 microfinance institutions. This allows us to share our knowledge and banking expertise"
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227 million EUR
"As at 31 December 2009, the total assets under management in our four microfinance funds"
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New countries
"In 2009 we added Sri Lanka, Colombia and Malawi to our list of countries where we are active as a microfinance investor"
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Funds for all stages
"Our funds are suited to the needs of microfinance institutions at all stages of development, from start-ups onwards"
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Commitment
"Our aim is to build long-term relationships, based on transparency and fairness, and a shared commitment to relieving poverty and caring for the planet"
Our expert:
Marilou van Golstein Brouwers
‘The microfinance banks and institutions we invest in worldwide are a vital catalyst for sustainable change’
Marilou van Golstein Brouwers is Managing Director of Triodos Investment Management BV, and one of the world’s leading authorities on microfinance. She started working for Triodos Bank in 1990.
More about Marilou van Golstein Brouwers
Network and Partners
Global Impact Investing Network
The Global Impact Investing Network is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing - for-profit investment made to solve social and environment problems. Triodos Investment Management is among the founding members.www.globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org
Triodos Bank in action
One valuable way of sharing our knowledge is through active board membership of all the microfinance institutions in which we invest. In each case, a senior member of our team serves as a director or alternate director on the Board, making available Triodos Bank's wide-ranging expertise in microfinance and sustainable banking