Investors
Australian Investors
The Australian Government is focused on mobilising more impact investment to support greater sustainability for SME financing in the Indo-Pacific. We are focused, in particular, on advancing climate and gender outcomes in our region.
Attracting Australian Investors
Australia’s prosperity and security is intimately linked to the prosperity and stability of its neighbours. Australia has much to offer the region through investment and trade, and we can play a key role in helping maximise the prosperity of our neighbours.
As outlined in Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy, Australia is well placed to accelerate our economic engagement with Southeast Asia. We have the potential to be a substantial investor due to our well-capitalised corporate sector, our deep and sophisticated capital markets, and our substantial national savings pool, including our superannuation industry.
Southeast Asia presents a lucrative opportunity for Australian investors. Southeast Asia is an economic powerhouse fuelled by favourable demographics, industrialisation, urbanisation and technological advances. Southeast Asia (as a bloc) is projected to become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2040, after the United States, China and India, with an expected compound annual growth rate of 4 per cent between 2022 and 2040.
Opportunities in Southeast Asia extend beyond traditional investment targets, as the impact investment market continues to strengthen and provide investment opportunities that align with improved climate and gender outcomes. Australians can work with our Southeast Asian partners to sustain and protect hard-won development gains. Economic investment in decent jobs, inclusive products and services and the clean energy transition are critical to the region’s future. ADI is designed to attract co-investment into its investee SME funds and enterprises. The ADI trust itself is solely owned by the Australian Government and as such, does not accept investment directly into the trust.
Jennifer Buckley, managing director of Sweef Capital, said DFAT’s involvement “has been instrumental in deepening Sweef’s relationships with institutional partners and family offices, including from Australia, Canada and Europe”.
James Eyers, Australian Financial Review, 14 November 2022
If you are interested in ADI’s investment strategy and/or looking for impact investment opportunities in the SME funds emerging markets in South Asia, Southeast or the Pacific Islands, please reach out to us via email at blended.finance@dfat.gov.au.