Investing for Impact
IMPACT = Podcast with Manfred Schepers, CEO and Founder of ILX Management
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In this episode of the IMPACT= Podcast, we talk to Manfred Schepers, the founder and CEO of ILX Management, the Amsterdam-based manager of emerging market-focused private credit fund, ILX Fund.
The fund provides institutional investors access to investment opportunities of the development finance asset class, by investing in private-sector loans arranged by Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
Manfred has over 30 years’ of senior-level experience in both development finance and international capital markets. Prior to founding ILX Management, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and led the Bank’s Institutional Investment Partnership program. He has also worked at SBC Warburg and UBS where he was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets from 1990-2004.
In the conversation Manfred provides insights on the the Fund’s investment strategy, which benefits from the DFI’s experience of investing in emerging markets, to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for its investors, whilst mitigating ESG risks and delivering positive, direct SDG-related results.
The fund provides institutional investors access to investment opportunities of the development finance asset class, by investing in private-sector loans arranged by Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
Manfred has over 30 years’ of senior-level experience in both development finance and international capital markets. Prior to founding ILX Management, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and led the Bank’s Institutional Investment Partnership program. He has also worked at SBC Warburg and UBS where he was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets from 1990-2004.
In the conversation Manfred provides insights on the the Fund’s investment strategy, which benefits from the DFI’s experience of investing in emerging markets, to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for its investors, whilst mitigating ESG risks and delivering positive, direct SDG-related results.