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SDG Loan Fund mobilizes USD 1.1 billion of investor capital

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Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), FMO Investment Management (FMO IM), and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (MacArthur) announced today that the SDG Loan Fund (the Fund) has successfully mobilized over USD 1.1 billion in private capital to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in emerging and frontier markets. The Fund's capital is provided by a group of institutional investors, including Allianz, the Dutch development bank FMO, and Skandia.

The Fund's "blended finance" structure enables leading institutional investors to co-invest in a portfolio of loan participations that support financial institutions and intermediaries serving small and medium-sized businesses in low- and moderate-income countries across Latin America, Asia, Africa, and EasteEurope in three target sectors: energy sector, financial institutions, and agribusiness.

Initially conceived by AllianzGI, the Fund's manager, and FMO IM, the portfolio manager, the Fund's structure includes a "first-loss" investment from FMO and a partial, unfunded guarantee from MacArthur. Together, these credit enhancements are mobilizing capital from institutional investors who would not customarily be able to finance high-impact loans in emerging and frontier markets.

The SDG Loan Fund is designed to address the urgent need for capital to reach the SDGs in developing countries. Totaling USD 3.9 trillion in 2020, this critical annual funding gap increased by 56 percent after the outbreak of COVID-19 . The Fund builds on a growing range of efforts to mobilize capital from private sector investors for investments in emerging and frontier markets towards the SDGs. Overall, capital deployed by the SDG Loan Fund will focus on economic growth (Sustainable Development Goal 8), equality (Sustainable Development Goal 10) and climate (Sustainable Development Goal 13).

Once fully invested in approximately 100 high-impact loan participations, the Fund aims that its investments support close to 60,000 jobs and to avoid approximately 450,000 tCO2 eq of greenhouse gases per annum according to FMO's historical experience and analysis. The Fund is expected to have a running start, with FMO warehousing approximately USD 100 million of eligible loans for the Fund.

"At Allianz Global Investors, we understand that blended finance has a crucial role to play in unlocking the private capital needed to spur development in emerging and frontier markets. Our partnership approach with FMO and the MacArthur Foundation has led to the creation of a compelling example of a concrete, innovative, market-led approach to mobilizing that capital at scale, helping ensure high-impact projects vital to the green transition receive the financing they need. We firmly believe the SDG Loan Fund will act as a blueprint for successful multi-stakeholder collaboration, which we hope to see many more examples of in the future" says Deborah Zurkow, Global Head of Investments at Allianz Global Investors.

"We are excited to partner with Allianz Global Investors and the MacArthur Foundation in our joint SDG Loan Fund. The capital pooled together through this blended finance structure is a demonstration that a shared vision to address the SDGs can result in finding solutions for very different types of investors. The Fund will allow FMO to provide more capital to its customers, supporting our shared mission to enhance local prosperity in developing countries globally. We are confident that together with Allianz Global Investors, we will ensure the Fund's success in selecting and managing an impactful portfolio" says Nic Wessemius, Managing Director at FMO Investment Management.

"The MacArthur Foundation is proud to harness our long experience with impact investing and guarantees in support of the SDG Loan Fund. By filling critical funding gaps and fueling economic, environmental, and social benefits for tens of thousands of small businesses, families and communities, the Fund will demonstrate the power of catalytic capital to unlock investment and impact that would not otherwise be possible," says Debra Schwartz, Managing Director of Impact Investments at the MacArthur Foundation.

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