BlueOrchard is a leading impact investment manager dedicated to fostering inclusive and sustainable growth in emerging and frontier markets. The firm offers premium investment solutions to qualified investors aiming to generate performance while impacting society and the environment.

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BlueOrchard is a pioneering impact investor, dedicated to:

-Generating lasting positive impact for communities and the environment
-Providing attractive returns to investors
-Contributing to the United Nations #SDGs through #impactinvesting #IncludeTheExcluded 

The power of an idea:

It all began with the idea to mobilize market forces to alleviate people from poverty and empower them to create a better life. Founded by initiative of the UN as the first commercial manager of microfinance debt investments, BlueOrchard has grown into one of the world’s leading impact investment managers, proving for over 20 years that financial returns and social and environmental impact go hand in hand. Today, BlueOrchard offers impact investment solutions across asset classes and is connecting millions of entrepreneurs in emerging and frontier markets with investors. The majority of BlueOrchard’s multinational and diverse staff is located in emerging and frontier markets, with deep local expertise and maintaining extensive networks in the respective regions. BlueOrchard’s aim is to make impact investment solutions accessible to all, and advancing the conscious use of capital. As an expert in innovative blended finance mandates, BlueOrchard has a sophisticated international investor base and is a trusted partner of leading development finance institutions. BlueOrchard is part of the Schroders Group and is sharing and contributing to its objective to deliver positive outcomes for all.

To date, BlueOrchard has invested more than USD 9.8bn across more than 105 countries. Over 255m poor and vulnerable people in emerging markets received access to financial and related services as of June 2022.

In 2021 BlueOrchard celebrates its 20 year anniversary. The book “This is my Story” showcases how impact investing has changed people’s lives in the past two decades and is available here https://cutt.ly/1lzCBxW.

Become a part of this powerful idea and help us to make an impact in this world!

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In this market update video, Waqas Munir, FRM, Senior Investment Officer, sheds light on India's microfinance space and provides a deep dive into the financial performance outlook of BlueOrchard's partner organisations that have demonstrated strong resilience in the current year.

More insights can be found here: https://bit.ly/3WjR1uJ

#microfinance #impactinvesting #blueorchard #financialinclusion  #india #marketingmaterial

Making an impact worldwide would not be possible without a dedicated team.

An inclusive and diverse set of individuals is the basis of our success:
Our 135+ employees are from 35 different nationalities, speak 35+ different languages, and are 52% female.

In this video, meet the faces behind the impact.

We would like to thank everyone who is a part of this unique journey. 
 
Learn more about us here: https://lnkd.in/eWyWXyJH
 
#blueorchard #impactinvesting #teamreunion #diversity

For opportunities that are new, untested, smaller in scale, or have a more challenging risk-return profile - and often target particularly poor and marginalized communities and regions - capital gaps remain, even though impact investing has become mainstream. 

This is where catalytic capital plays a critical role in advancing the frontiers of impact. The recent release from Catalytic Capital Consortium and Courageous Capital Advisors, LLC illustrates BlueOrchard's efforts to use catalytic capital to advance climate adaptation and spread climate insurance to mitigate the impacts of climate change for poor and vulnerable people.

Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3C0wjrF

#impactinvesting #climatechange #sustainability #catalyticcapital #blueorchard #climateinsurance

“We can learn to find happiness within and feel more content, satisfied and grateful. And then perhaps, our abuse of the material world will diminish and our planet can start to breathe.”
Gelong Thubten, Buddhist Monk, Meditation Teacher and Author

On the sidelines of the BlueOrchard Impact Summit, we had the opportunity to interview some of the speakers about what impact and sustainability mean to their business and to them personally.
Watch Ana Maria Montero - Moderator interviewing Gelong Thubten on human greed and disconnection with others, and how the mind can be transformed to achieve happiness and sustainability from within.

Thank you, Thubten, for joining us!

Stay tuned for more exclusive insights and interviews from the BlueOrchard Impact Summit 2022.

#sustainability #impactinvesting #climateaction #blueorchard #thereisnoplanetb #mindfulness

There is a rare opportunity to build infrastructure in a sustainable way in the markets that need it most.
 
Emerging markets have a pronounced and wide-ranging need for infrastructure development.
According to the OHCR, trillions of US Dollars are needed to close the finance gap on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. 
Around 75% of that gap accounts for necessary infrastructure investments in the developing world.
 
The sheer size of this investment gap poses a significant challenge to the efforts to overcome poverty and inequality – and an opportunity.
Public and private investors have a chance to leverage increasing global awareness of sustainable infrastructure to create new and lasting partnerships that deploy capital for that purpose.
Improving the efficiency of infrastructure investment is an important element that will facilitate meeting the SDGs, especially in low-income countries where resources are limited. 
 
Curious to learn more about sustainable infrastructure: https://bit.ly/3PctoRH
 
#sustainableinfrastructure #sustainability #infrastructure #impactinvesting #blueorchard #marketingmaterial

“We have got to bring mainstream finance to solve some of the most difficult problems.” Peter Harrison, Group Chief Executive at Schroders.
 
On the sidelines of the BlueOrchard Impact Summit, we had the opportunity to interview some of the speakers about what impact and sustainability mean to their business and to them personally.
Watch Ana Maria Montero - Moderator interviewing Peter Harrison on the role and responsibility of the finance industry in achieving a sustainable future and the true value of nature.

Thank you, Peter, for joining us!
 
Stay tuned for more exclusive insights and interviews from the BlueOrchard Impact Summit 2022.
 
#sustainability #impactinvesting #climateaction #blueorchard #thereisnoplanetb

What is the relative value of emerging markets?

In our latest publication, Felix Hermes and Richard Hardy argue that emerging markets offer significant opportunity and that private equity strategies in financial inclusion may be particularly well positioned to seize this opportunity. 

Why and how? 
Find out here: https://bit.ly/3UlrkrP

#impactinvesting #emergingmarkets #financialinclusion #blueorchard #privateequity #marketingmaterial

The #BOFaces series introduces you to the people making up BlueOrchard’s dedicated team, which is spread across our offices around the world. 

This month, we had the pleasure of speaking with Ketevan, Senior Legal Counsel in investments, based in Tbilisi.
She shared with us why she decided to join BlueOrchard and the impact investing industry, and how she spends time outside the office.

Read the full inteview here: https://bit.ly/3Vq83qr

#impactinvesting #employeeappreciation #blueorchard #tbilisi

We are pleased to announce our investment in Igloo, one of the top insurtech companies in Southeast Asia, in partnership with KfW. With a mission of making insurance accessible for all, Igloo leverages big data, real-time risk assessment, and end-to-end automated claims management. 
Mahesh Joshi, Head of Private Equity Investments Asia at BlueOrchard commented: “We see a profitable, sustainable, and socially responsible business model that we are proud to support.”

The investment in Igloo aligns with the vision and principles of the InsuResilience Investment strategy and the InsuResilience Global Partnership IRGP, which was launched at the 2017 UN Climate Conference COP23 by Germany. The vision is to strengthen the resilience of developing countries to the effects of climate change and to protect the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable people against extreme weather events and natural disasters. The objective is to enable more timely and reliable post-disaster response and offer insurance solutions to reduce impacts and help poor and vulnerable people recover more quickly.

Read the full announcement here: https://bit.ly/3P6vinf

Raunak Mehta Felix Hermes Ernesto Costa Yvonne Gong, CFA Stefan W. Hirche

#impactinvesting #climatechange #climateinsurance #blueorchard #marketingmaterial #buildresilience

We are thrilled to be ranked 3rd in the “Top 10: Impact investment managers making sustainable changes” ranking by Sustainability Magazine.
 
We would like to thank everyone involved and look forward to achieving more impact at scale.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3VoOAX3
 
#impactinvesting #sustainability #blueorchard

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