The Fund promotes sustainable food and agricultural practices across the entire value chain in emerging markets characterized by high demand, strong growth potential and severe underinvestment. The sector requires USD 83 billion annually to counter the supply and demand mismatch.
The investment strategy is conservative, with a well-diversified portfolio. The portfolio combines both direct and indirect exposures to agricultural companies in the form of senior and subordinated debt of varying maturities, but principally short tenors. Direct financing is characterised by high seasonality and diversification across agricultural products, countries and portfolio companies. Indirect investments relate to debt financing for agriculture-focused financial institutions.
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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
Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland - ISIN
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Product category
Find the definitions we used for the product categories in the glossar.
Private Equity 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 - Min investment amount
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Sustainable Development Goals
2. Zero hunger12. Responsible consumption and production
