IIX’s multi award-winning Women’s Livelihood Bond™ (WLB™) Series is the world’s first gender-lens impact investing security listed on a stock exchange.
By addressing the three dimensions of risk-return-impact, IIX created a new kind of financial instrument that delivers stable returns and sustainable impact to investors. To date, the WLB™ Series has mobilized US$128 million and is empowering over 1 million women and girls across Asia and Africa.
By addressing the three dimensions of risk-return-impact, IIX created a new kind of financial instrument that delivers stable returns and sustainable impact to investors. To date, the WLB™ Series has mobilized US$128 million and is empowering over 1 million women and girls across Asia and Africa.
The WLB™ Series uses an innovative financial structure to balance risk, return, and impact. By pooling together a multi-country, multi-sector portfolio the Bonds provide investors with diversification benefits and empower women in emerging markets to advance climate action, economic growth, and community resilience.
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Transform the Financial System with Gender Equality
WLB5 is the world’s first Orange Bond
Building on the success of the previous WLB™ Series issuances, IIX has successfully issued the Women’s Livelihood Bond 5 (WLB5). The WLB5 is the world’s first Orange Bond and will invest in a multi-continent, multi-sector portfolio of high impact enterprises to empower women across Asia and Africa to build economic resilience and advance climate action.
WLB™ SERIES AWARDS
The WLB™ Series has won a number of international awards for going beyond traditional ESG investments to truly empower women to transform their lives, build COVID-resilient communities, and advance climate action.
WeEmpower Award for Leadership Action and Commitment
Overall Winner
MAINSTREAMING GENDER-LENS INVESTING ACROSS THE WORLD
The WLB™ Series has raised over US $128 million from accredited investors across the world. Each issuance has continued to scale-up in size and has channeled capital into diversified portfolios spanning across a range of sectors and continents
WLB™ SERIES PARTNERS
The WLB™ Series engages a diverse group of partners from across the world including banks, law-firms, donor agencies, foundations, and UN bodies towards the common mission of building gender-equal, green capital markets.
ALIGNMENT WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)
The WLB™ Series bond issuances advance 15 out of the 17 UN SDGs, recognizing that women empowerment and gender equality are critical to solving the world’s biggest sustainable development challenges including poverty alleviation, food security, climate action, economic stability, sustainable peace, among others.
