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TriLinc Global Impact Fund Invests $9.5 Million in Emerging Markets

TriLinc Global Impact Fund, a non-traded, externally managed, limited liability company, approved a total of $9.5 million in term loan and trade finance facilities to companies in Argentina, Ecuador, and South Africa. This brings its total financing commitments to $131.1 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development through its holdings in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, as of January 31, 2016.

TriLinc is an impact investing fund that provides growth-stage loans and trade finance to established small and medium enterprises in developing economies where access to affordable capital is significantly limited.

Impact Investing is defined as investing with the specific objective of achieving a competitive financial return as well as creating positive, measurable impact in communities across the globe.

“TriLinc’s recent investments in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrate the company’s sustained commitment to catalyzing local economic development through international trade,” said Gloria Nelund, TriLinc chief executive officer. “By extending trade finance facilities to growth-stage SMEs, TriLinc has become a reliable source of timely and flexible export and import financing that enhances the competitive positioning of its borrowers in the global marketplace while also having positive social and environmental impacts in the communities where they operate.”

TriLinc invests in small and medium enterprises through experienced local market sub-advisors, and expects to create a diversified portfolio of financial assets consisting primarily of collateralized private debt instruments. The company aggregates and analyzes social, economic and environmental impact data to track progress and measure success against stated objectives.

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