TDB Group’s Asset Management is focused on the design, origination, and growth of stand-alone investment vehicles for a wide range of investors and development partners. Among others, Eastern and Southern African Trade Advisers Limited (ESATAL) launched the Eastern and Southern African Trade Fund (ESATF) in 2019, which focuses on advancing trade-led economic and social development via the financing of short to medium-term trade transactions, including those of SMEs.
As part of Corporate Plan VI (2018-2022) the Bank has expanded its funds management strategy to an asset management strategy covering programme management and fund administration services to development partners. Many donors, DFIs and impact investors face challenges in achieving value for money in the deployment of their capital, and lack the networks required to effectively find on-the-ground programme managers.
TDB leverages its networks in the region and its experience in deploying capital to initiatives in the region to provide outsourced programme management services. This can entail assisting governments, foundations, and DFIs to find projects to co-fund as well as to design grant/loan-fund programmes and support the implementation of such programmes