Luanda, Angola — 25 November Africa Investor (Ai) played a central leadership role at the AU–EU Heads of State Business Summit in Luanda, advancing Africa’s institutional-investor-led green-industrial agenda on behalf of the continent’s pension, insurance and sovereign investment community, and championing the African Union’s 5% Asset Allocation Agenda, GreenAlpha, and the...
Initiative could unlock billions annually for creators and nations from the continent’s creative sectors JOHANNESBURG– November 24, 2025 – A new G20 roadmap urges that Cultural Intellectual Property (IP)— from creative works such as music and art to digital cultural data—be formally recognized and integrated into macroeconomic and financial frameworks. This...
Johannesburg, London, Belém, New York, Tokyo The Institute of Sovereign Investors, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and Africa Investor (Ai) today launched a new Global Fiduciary Efficiency and Cost of Capital Framework at the G20, revealing substantial investment losses arising from legacy emerging-market risk-measurement systems. The analysis shows that the 20-year...
Vatican City / London / Belém / Johannesburg — 26 October 2025 The COP30 IFRS Framework for Nature — a Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Lighthouse Report designed to institutionalise Nature on the balance sheet as a recognised, auditable, and investable asset class — was launched following a historic week at the...
New York, 26 September 2025 — A landmark report launched at New York Climate Week and the 80th UN General Assembly sets out a clear allocation pathway for institutional investors to channel 5–10 per cent of portfolios into nature-based assets by 2030, classifying ecosystems as productive infrastructure that deliver resilience,...
Blended finance is being wrongly treated as a cure-all for the water investment gap in Africa, despite lacking the capacity to deliver on the continent’s infrastructure needs. This was the stark reality check provided by Hubert Danso, Chairman and CEO of Africa Investor Group, at the ongoing AU–Africa Water Investment Programme...
African NDC‑Aligned Green Industrial Infrastructure as a Globally Competitive Investable Asset Class Executive Summary During the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, investors advocated for the creation of Priority Investor Status (PIS), a proven framework designed to de‑risk and scale the mobilization of institutional capital for Africa’s NDC‑aligned green industrial infrastructure and SDG‑aligned investments....
Dr. Hubert Danso, Chairman, Africa investor (Ai) Group Every year of delayed green technology deployment costs the world an estimated $1.6 trillion in climate damages and lost opportunities—a stark reminder of the urgency to act. The challenge of achieving net-zero targets amidst systemic climate finance gaps is one of the defining crises...
As officials from around the world strive this week to reach a deal on funding for poorer countries to tackle climate change, investment manager Rob Drijkoningen is the sort of person they're hoping will help get them there. Drijkoningen is head of emerging market debt at U.S. asset manager Neuberger Berman,...
The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Africa Council has unveiled a new initiative aimed at making natural assets a core component of national balance sheets. The Natural Capital on African Governments’ Balance Sheets initiative is an institutional investor-public partnership led by the SMI Africa Council, which brings together institutional, technology and legal...
