{"id":4,"date":"2008-01-25T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T23:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/investors\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:33:53","slug":"strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond Microfinance: SME Venture Capital<\/strong><\/p>\n

A number of factors make emerging market SMEs attractive development vehicles and<\/em><\/u> <\/em>competitive investments:<\/p>\n

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  1. They encourage competition and entrepreneurship<\/li>\n
  2. They fuel innovation, employment, and productivity growth<\/li>\n
  3. They provide a breadth of investment opportunities<\/li>\n
  4. They generate “Private Equity” returns<\/li>\n
  5. They produce tremendous social dividends<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Benificiaries<\/h3>\n

    1. Entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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    • Access to the capital they need to grow their business<\/li>\n
    • Access to the networks they need to grow their markets<\/li>\n
    • Access to the strategic advice they need to become local, regional, and eventually global business leaders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      2. Employees<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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      • Two thirds of SME staff are poor or low-skilled workers<\/li>\n
      • Investments in SMEs, on average, lead to salary increases of 28%<\/li>\n
      • Since SMEs usually don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have access to top talent, large investments are made in training their employees<\/li>\n
      • Stable employment in SMEs has generational knock-on effects:<\/li>\n
      • allows employees to pay for their children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s education and health services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        3. Emerging Economies<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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        • Important tax source for local governments<\/li>\n
        • Important connection between informal and formal sellers and buyers, and between rural and urban markets<\/li>\n
        • Encourages critical infrastructure investment to facilitate public goods growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          4. Investors<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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          • Competitive Private Equity returns<\/li>\n
          • Professional asset management<\/li>\n
          • Portfolio diversification<\/li>\n
          • Philanthropic dividends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Beyond Microfinance: SME Venture Capital A number of factors make emerging market SMEs attractive development vehicles and competitive investments: They encourage competition and entrepreneurship They fuel innovation, employment, and productivity growth They provide a breadth of investment opportunities They generate “Private Equity” returns They produce tremendous social dividends Benificiaries 1. Entrepreneurs Access to the capital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom24.org\/ceylonfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}