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Japanese Retail Investors Continue to Show Strong Support for Vaccine Bonds
24 June 2009
Vaccine bonds offered to Japanese retail investors raise USD 130 million equivalent to help pay for health and immunisation programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. [English]
Netherlands To Join Innovative Funding Programme For Immunisation
Dutch pledge of € 80 million will support vaccination in poorest countries
3 June 2009
The Netherlands has pledged Euros 80 million over eight years to an innovative financing initiative that converts long-term government pledges into immediate funds for children’s vaccination programmes. [English]
Vaccine Bonds Launched To Help Save Children's Lives
1 June 2009
HSBC Securities (Japan) Limited, in collaboration with the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) and the World Bank, is launching vaccine investment bonds or “vaccine bonds”. [English] [Japanese]
Investors welcome the return of IFFIm’s “Vaccine Bonds” to the Japanese debt market, giving Japanese retail investors a special investment opportunity and chance to protect millions of lives against preventable diseases.
27 May 2009
Vaccine bonds offered to Japanese retail investors in two currencies will raise USD 143 million equivalent to help pay for health and immunisation programmes in the world’s poorest countries. [English]
IFFIm’s inaugural sterling offering raises GBP 266 million for vaccine programmes
19 May 2009
Retail and institutional investors welcome the unique opportunity to make an investment that protects millions of lives against preventable diseases. [English]
IFFIm raises more than US$ 2 billion to support life saving immunisation programmes in poorest countries
19 May 2009
The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) satisfies strong demand for ethical investments and helps ensure children are vaccinated. [English]
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group expected to offer "Vaccine Bonds" to Japanese Investors
6 April 2009
Children in the world's poorest countries could benefit from a lifetime of protection from vaccine-preventable diseases thanks to the proposed sale next month of Vaccine Bonds to Japanese retail investors by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). [English]
Innovative Vaccine Investment ISA will help save children's lives
3 March 2009
Investors are being offered an opportunity to save money and help save lives with a new Vaccine Investment ISA which aims to raise £50 million to vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries. [English]
Vaccine bonds give Japanese retail investors a special investment opportunity and chance to protect millions of lives against preventable diseases
5 February 2009
Vaccine bonds offered to Japanese retail investors in three currencies will raise USD 429 million equivalent to help pay for health and immunisation programmes in the world’s poorest countries. [English]
“Vaccine bonds” offer Japanese savers an ethical investment which also helps save children’s lives
16 January 2009
“Vaccine bonds" which are expected go on sale in Japan next month will offer Japanese investors a fixed rate of return plus an opportunity to see their money used to help immunise children in the world’s poorest countries. “IFFIm’s vaccine bonds are a special proposition not only because they are a AAA-rated investment but also because they offer investors the deep inward satisfaction of knowing that their money is being used for something extraordinarily worthwhile,” said Alan Gillespie, Chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (IFFIm), at a seminar for potential investors in Tokyo on Friday, January 16. [English]