Ashburton Investments

Ashburton has helped unlock debt investments in small and growing businesses and intermediaries by partnering with National Treasury's Jobs Fund to develop a multi-million Rand Guarantee facility that partially guarantees possible losses which may arise from these types of investments. The Ashburton Credit Enhanced Funds (ACEF) I and II, which emerged from this partnership, have attracted close to R1.5 billion of private sector capital towards investments in job-creating initiatives. The businesses which benefit from the debt deployed by the funds have collectively created over 10 000 jobs for previously disadvantaged people, of which 85% are women and about 70% are for people living in under-served provinces.