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MicrofinanceFocus on Demand:
What do Investors Really Want?
MIV Roundtable on Responsible FinanceMeeting Investor Demand for Improvement Social Performance MeasurementParis, 19th of June 2008
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Focus on Demand: What do Investors really want?
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Retail
Institutional
Public
Semi-Institutional
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Public
Retail
Semi-InstitutionalClients
InstitutionalClients
30%
13 %
19%
38%
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Focus on DemandWhat do Investors really want?
Financial Return or/ before Social Return?
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Financial or Social Performance?
Focus on DemandWhat do Investors really want?
Financial Social
RetailSemi-InstitutionalInstitutional
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Retail Clients
Men/ Women
Men
Women
70 %
30 %Age 20-40
Age 40-60
Age above 60
20 % 20 %
60%
Age
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Retail Clients (cont‘d)
Why do they invest?
Social responsible investment
•To invest responsibly
•Risk averse
•To salve one‘s conscience
What questions are they asking?
•Does the money reach the target group?
•Interest rates for the loans
•Gender
•Type of loans
•Political situation in the countries
•Outreach
•What kind of a return is possible?
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Retail Clients (cont‘d)
How could they invest?
Regulated Mutual Funds
Structured Finance Vehicles
Private Equity Funds
Holding Companies
Commercial Investment Companies
Social Investment Companies
Barriers
Not registered for public distribution
Access to the products
Information about the products
Investment size
No access via the banks/ distribution
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Semi – Institutional Investors
Private Wealth/ Family offices
Diversification of the portfolio
Low correlation
Low volatility
Stable performance
Transparency
Security
Why do they invest? What are they looking for?
The concept of microfinance
Social responsible investment
Risk averse investments/ securities
Reputation
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Who are the Investors in Microfinance?
Institutional Investors
Pension funds, Trustees, Corporates, Clerical Institutions
Why do they invest? What are they looking for?
Risk-adjusted return
Portfolio diversification
Low correlation
Low volatility
Fee strucutre
Market size
The concept of microfinance
Alternative investment
Social responsible investment
Reputation
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What are they looking for?
Transparency
• About the market
• About different products
• About comparable information
• About the underlyings
• About the investment process
•About the MFIs
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Institutional Investors (cont‘d)
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What are they looking for?
Information
• Regular information
• Actual information about the market
• Historical information
• About the products
•About the MFIs
1,50% 1,38%
1,89%
1,25%0,88%
1,90%
0,0%
0,5%
1,0%
1,5%
2,0%
OstasienSüdasien LateinAmerika
EECA MENA Afrika
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worldwide
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Institutional Investors (cont‘d)
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What are they looking for?
Standardisation
• Definition of microfinance
• Definition of social performance
• Statistics/ track record
• Indicies
• Ratings
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
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Quelle: Bloomberg / eigene Berechnung* SMX = Symbiotics Microfinance Index
Institutional Investors (cont‘d)
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Social Performance
What are they looking for?
• Coporate governance of the MFIs
• Quality of the management
• Education
• Target group of clients/gender
• Types of lending
• Portfolio quality
• Profitability
• Interest Rates for the loans
• Outreach
Institutional Investors (cont‘d)
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Key take-aways for discussion
•Strong common interest in
• transparency
• good information/data
• standardization
• Microfinance is considered in comparison to other asset classes
•Investors are a diverse group
• What is the best fit for microfinance?