Contiene: 1. Introductory remarks: the purpose of our endeavour.- 2. Microfinance investement funds: where wealth creation meets poverty reduction.- 3. Microfinance investment funds: objectives, players , potential.- 4. The market for microfinance foreign investment : opportunities and challenges.- 5. Micro-bubble or macro-immunity?risk and return in microfinance: lessons from recent crises in Latin America.- 7. Procredit banks in southeast Europe: successful public-private partnership in microfinance.- 8. Coomercial investment in microfinance: a class by itself?.- 9. Investing in microfinance investment funds-risk perspectives of a development finance institution.- 10. The management of foreign exchange risk by microfinance institutions and microfinance investment funds.- 11. Governance, transparency, and accountability in the microfinance investment fund industry.- 12. Sustainability in microfinance-visions and versions for exit by development finance institutions.- 13. The European fund for southeast europe: an innovative instrument for political and economic stabilisation.- 14. Mainstreaming microfinance-quo vadis microfinance investments.- 15. Commercial investment in microfinance: fears and fulfilment.- 16. Microfinance investment funds: looking a head.- 17. A donor-investors vision for enhancing the future of microfinance.