Launched in 2003, the fund contributes to a comprehensive range of Sustainable. Development Goals (SDGs). Financial inclusion is at the impact strategy’s core, supporting to close the gap of 1.7 billion people and millions of Small & Mid-sized Enterprises (SME) that are still lacking sufficient access to financial services. In addition, the impact strategy targets the global sustainable food production in which millions of small holder farmers are crucial. The impact strategy also provides access to essential services, such as healthcare & WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) to the benefit of bottom-of-the pyramid populations, and access to renewable energy that will ensure sustainable development and mitigate climate change.
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IPAF Rating
The IPAF successively assesses two dimensions of the impact potential of financial products. First, it assesses the (maximum) impact potential of financial products based on impact mechanisms they supposedly apply (in relation to communicated elements in marketing documents). Those impact mechanisms are the ones widely documented by academic research: Grow new/undersupplied markets ; Provide flexible capital ; Engage actively ; Send (market and nonmarket) signals. Second, it evaluates the implementation of that impact potential based on the intensity with which financial products action the various impact mechanisms in connection to success factors documented by academic research. At the end of the scoring process, the IPAF delivers an Impact Potential Score.
The Impact Potential Score is then transformed into an Impact Potential Rating that goes from A (products with highest impact potential) to G (products with lowest impact potential).
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Country availability
Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands - ISIN
LU0180189770 - Product
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Product category
Find the definitions we used for the product categories in the glossar.
Private Equity & Private Debt funds - Thematic focus
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Type of investor
According to Section 1 of Annex II to Directive 2014/65/EU an investor is considered to be a qualified or professional client when he or she possesses the experience, knowledge and expertise to make his or her own investment decisions and properly assess the risks that it incurs.
According to the same directive, retail investors, are clients who do not fall within the scope of the definition of a qualified or professional client. In other words, a retail investor is considered to have less literacy and less money to invest.
Qualified Investor , Retail Investor - Min investment amount
1.000 € - AuM
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Sustainable Development Goals
1. No poverty5. Gender equality8. Decent work and economic growth
