Global Investment in Africa – Unlocking Capital Flows

This online event convenes key stakeholders from the institutional investor community globally to discuss the investment challenges and opportunities in emerging and frontier markets, with a focus on how large-scale institutional investors are refining strategies for investing in Africa.

For decades, governments through Bilateral and Multilateral Development Institutions have been the primary investors in Africa, focusing on closing the sustainable development funding gap. Yet according to the OECD, to achieve the SDGs by 2030, Africa needs an additional $194 billion in investment each year. Understanding the challenges and opportunities for large-scale institutional investors to increase their investment allocations to Africa and other emerging economies is imperative to reducing the existing funding gap.

This event will enable large-scale institutional investors to collectively cross-pollinate and inspire. Speakers from US, European, and African asset owners will present their case studies and journeys. This will lead into an open discussion where attendees can jointly explore the challenges that prevent institutional allocations to African investments and how others have been able to navigate or surmount them.

• Moderator: Papa Madiaw Ndiaye, CEO and Founding Partner of AFIG Funds and Chairman of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

Featured case studies will include:

• Peter Johnson, Co-Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Developing World Markets Inc. – $600 million Assets Under Management: An impact asset manager with over two decades of experience in emerging and frontier markets. Through DWM Asset Management, LLC, the firm’s SEC-registered investment advisor, DWM has originated and managed over $2 billion of private debt and private equity in impact-oriented enterprises, including over 600 loans and 25 private equity stakes in more than 40 emerging and frontier countries.
• Casey Family Programs – $2.5 billion Assets Under Management: The largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care in the United States, their mission is to provide and improve, and ultimately prevent the need for, foster care. Jim Casey, the founder of United Parcel Service, established Casey Family Programs in 1966 to help improve the safety and success of vulnerable children and their families across America.
• NYC Board of Education Retirement System (BERS) – $9 billion Assets Under Management: One of the largest multi-employer, multi-tiered retirement systems in the United States. Its members are employed in such city agencies as the Department of Education, the School Construction Authority, the Police Department, and the Transit Authority. The Retirement System benefits exist to provide financial security for its members and their beneficiaries both during and after employment ends.

The interactive segments will also offer a venue to share relevant research, de-risking mechanisms and emerging opportunities and developments in this space.

Join Chemonics UK, the Institutional Investor Network, and Innovest Advisory for this event, part of a series on the key role institutional investors can play in reaching the Global Goals while fulfilling their fiduciary duties.

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