IFPT Investment Process

Cordiant's loan portfolios are built on a strategy of prudent diversification. Specific investment parameters mitigate risk by limiting exposure at the country, industry, sector and investment levels.

Potential loans are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, which allows Cordiant to pick the very best deals for its portfolios. While Cordiant has access to the IFI's project appraisals, environmental impact assessments, and financial, economic and technical viability analyses, the firm nonetheless performs its own rigorous due diligence on each project. Cordiant's portfolio team gauges the potential loan's maturity, sector, yield and impact on the portfolio's credit quality as well as the political and economic stability of the host country. If warranted, final analysis includes a site visit. In this way, Cordiant gains a comprehensive feel for the project, the borrower, its corporate structure, the community - in other words, all the building blocks necessary to make a sound investment.

It is through this careful risk analysis and pro-active loan selection that Cordiant's loan funds remain low-risk investments. It is also this case-by-case flexibility that allows Cordiant to remain responsive to investment opportunities as they arise.