SEAF’s 30th anniversary as impact investors was truly a remarkable one, thanks to the hard work of all of those across our global network. In 2019, we deepened our commitment to improving lives and communities through entrepreneur-focused investment across emerging and frontier markets. During the course...
"How are impact investors thinking about addressing intentionality and accountability in their fund formation documents and what trends and challenges exist?" SEAF General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Kate Lahnstein recently had an opportunity to address those key questions in the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association's...
Last week, the Women Impact Investing Network (WIIN) and Georgetown’s Net Impact Chapter, with support from the Beeck Center, hosted a panel discussion to demystify impact measurement and management (IMM) and provide the latest insights and best practices from leading practitioners in the field. The speakers...
SEAF CEO Bert van der Vaart tells the story of Solaric, a solar company in Bangladesh, a country where approximately 40% of the population is still off the electricity grid. Solaric's off-grid, rural populations clean and affordable solar power to help raise their standard of...
Our first post focuses on Jan Cherim, SEAF’s European Hub Managing Director for Business Development, based in Amsterdam. Jan has been involved in emerging and frontier markets finance for decades, frequently involving agribusinesses. Jan has been working in recent months with various organizations dedicated to...
We are pleased to announce our new series on the business of agriculture, from production to retail and everything in between...
CEO Bert van der Vaart explains why SEAF focuses its work on what he refers to as “The Missing Middle” - small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). In 1989, the founders of SEAF noticed that while development financial institutions were supporting large-scale projects, but no one...
“The business of business should not be about money,” writes Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop. “It should be about responsibility.” This was how a report in Financial Times began this past week. The article, which discussed the increase in the number of ESG exchange-traded...
The Asian Venture Philanthropy Network Limited (AVPN) recently held its annual conference in Singapore. Now in its seventh year, the AVPN Conference 2019 brings together a diverse group of investors and resource providers from around the globe to take part in the largest gathering of...
The RIIA Hoffman Finance Forum was held last week at Chatham House in London, the UK’s oldest and most well-established think tank, and SEAF Managing Director Jan Cherim participated in the roundtable on Moving from Niche to Mainstream: Finance for Social and Environmental Enterprises. The...
