SIMA promotes impact investments in for-profit businesses that align with financial, social and environmental goals. We work with individual, institutional, and philanthropic investors and with public sector development finance investors to create market-based investment opportunities with mitigated risk.

We aim to create positive economic, social and environmental impact through well-designed investment funds that raise the standard of living of people and communities at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP).  We focus on solar energy, financial inclusion and affordable housing sectors in some of the poorest countries of the world.  We maintain a strong local presence and over 95% of our staff are located in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

For impact investors, we offer opportunities to invest in leading companies generating attractive financial returns and measurable impact.  We also conduct impact assessments and portfolio reviews for investors.  For practitioners, we advise on valuations, risk management, internal control, investment readiness, ESG compliance, gender action, impact reporting, etc.

SIMA has created the SIMA Impact Foundation with a mission to advance impact investing and spur emerging impact sectors by making early-stage investments to help demonstrate the potential of emerging sectors which cannot yet be financed commercially.

The First Pakistan Microfinance Fund would result in connecting some larger financial players in the country’s thriving capital markets including Arif Habib (largest brokerage firm), leading commercial banks, and other investors, with the intermediate-sized MFIs.