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ASA International

July 2019

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The main risk for ASA, which provides microfinance to female entrepreneurs in Asia and Africa, is that it makes its money in local currencies but is obliged to report in US$ so any local currency depreciation can cut into profits. That was why we said “wait for a suitable entry point” in December’s write-up. Results confirmed this issue was worse than expected (and flagged in February) as while “normalised” net profit at constant currency rose 30% to US$32.4m, weakness in Asian currencies, notably Pakistan’s PKR (down 26%) & India’s INR, which fell 9%, meant net profit fell 17% to US$24.5m.However, the business itself is going great guns with the number of clients up 17% to 2.2m and len ...

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