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21 February 2025

20 mins with: Manfred Schepers, ILX Fund

Sam McManus
Sam McManus
Director
In:
Climate finance, Renewable energy, Social projects
Region:
Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific
Uxolo spoke with Manfred Schepers, CEO at ILX Fund to discuss how its MDB-backed portfolio is yielding credit margin returns of 4% for its broad church of investors, and what else needs to be done to scale up development finance as an asset class. Can private creditors get extra de-risking cushions?

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