Quỹ phát triển tài chính vi mô luôn luôn thu hút các nhà đầu tư cá nhân bởi vì các nhà đầu tư có thể cảm thấy tốt về những khoản đầu tư. Họ có thể đầu tư số tiền lớn hơn nếu họ có thể làm cho sự quay trở lại cao hơn một chút. Các cá nhân sẽ tìm thấy các quỹ đầu tư phù hợp? Bao gồm những người đầu tư độc quyền trong các công cụ nợ, thời gian của các cuộc điều tra, chỉ có năm thương mại tài chính vi mô quỹ đầu tư. | Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds 41 Promoters of microfinance investment funds should target the investment portfolios of individuals. These portfolios are potentially much larger than their allocations to investments producing a clear social return but only a modest financial return. Microfinance development funds will always attract individual investors because these investors can feel good about these investments. They are likely to invest larger amounts if they can make a slightly higher return. Will these individuals find suitable investment funds Including those investing exclusively in debt instruments at the time of the surveys only five commercial microfinance investment funds attract a large number of private individuals. Three are in the Netherlands mainly geared towards Dutch investors. The other two are in Luxembourg targeting international investors. All five are growing rapidly. At least four other commercial microfinance investment funds have been set up since then thereby contributing to widening the range of commercial investment vehicles in microfinance available to individual as well as institutional investors. Commercial microfinance investment funds will almost certainly continue to be essentially debt driven with potentially a small portion of their assets in equity investments which corresponds to the risk profile of the private investors targeted. They are likely to be an important source of debt financing in hard currencies for the most mature MFIs. This will encourage DFIs and other development oriented investors to focus on less mature MFIs and on local currency funding. As the equity portion of these funds will remain small and certainly well diversified they are likely to co-invest in the equity of MFIs either with quasi-commercial microfinance investment funds or directly with DFIs or NGOs without taking an active role in the governance of these MFIs. This activity will constitute a new form of public-private .
