Our Vision

We have a bold, ambitious and achievable vision for investing in the future we want for our children and communities and in the vital role women play in shaping that.

We created Sweef Capital to be a trusted flagship for quality investment at scale that improves peoples’ lives and showcases the potential of women and of Southeast Asia.

We educate the market about the potential of Southeast Asia as a destination for capital that has a real impact.

Our investment approach is focused on thematics and strategies that will contribute to achieving a prosperous, resilient, inclusive and sustainable region that offers a multitude of opportunity.

We created Sweef Capital to be a trusted flagship for quality investment at scale that improves peoples’ lives and showcases the potential of women and of Southeast Asia.

That cannot be achieved without increasing choice and opportunity for women in ways that deliver measurable benefit for them, their communities and for markets.

By investing in companies addressing challenges they face today, we can create investment opportunities people can get behind to be part of the solution

Setting The Standard:
Sweef Capital Gender ROI™

We are informing the global agenda in gender equality with leading framework, tools and benchmarking. Our investment team had leadership role in developing the Sweef Capital Gender ROI™ designed to identify gender gaps and improve gender equality performance and economic performance at enterprise level.

Our focus is creating measurable improvements in Resilience, Opportunity and Inclusion for people and communities, particularly women.

Resilience

Access resources and participate in decision making processes that affect their lives and family

Opportunity

Equal opportunities to allow women become economically active and advance to leadership and decision making position

Inclusion

Address existing barriers to ensure their continued employment and advancement

By applying different levers of change across the enterprise dimensions targeting women’s economic and social roles, contributions, and constraints and vulnerabilities, women’s economic empowerment is demonstrated through Resilience, Opportunities and Inclusion.

Leadership

Women leaders promote gender equality and diversity within their own spheres of influence

Workforce

Leadership champion women through its value systems, policies and practices, and is one of the key foundations of business resiliency

Value Chains

Leadership enable women’s economic empowerment through its customers and suppliers

Society

Active contributions from other dimensions lead to improvement to women’s wellbeing, their families and communities

We apply diversity measures and benchmarking through the investment selection and life-cycle to identify enterprises committed to women’s economic empowerment and gender equality and track their progress and improvements post-investment.

“The benefits of having more women in leadership roles include better firm performance, particularly during periods of economic volatility, and greater ability to minimize high-risk financial transactions and serve markets dominated by women.”

— Source: IFC