11Jul
20Apr
Dr. Danso’s Investor Letter on Allocating to African Green Industrial Infrastructure as a Globally Competitive Investable Asset Class
Dear Esteemed Institutional Investment Partners, We stand at a historic crossroads where financial prosperity converges with environmental responsibility. As universal owners, our capital, portfolio companies, and market influence wield the power to redefine global industrial markets while fostering sustainable returns for future generations. With the advent of the...
24Mar
AU Summit Africa Business Forum addresses ‘Making Development Investable’
Leaders from the African government, civil society, investment and business community, convened over the weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the 37th African Union (AU) Summit and the Africa Business Forum (ABF) 2024, co-hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Google. https://youtu.be/UodTB8dbT_w Africa investor’s...
26Jan
Bankers Push World Bank to Unlock Secret Data For Climate Loans
As the finance industry faces mounting pressure to play its part in fighting the climate crisis in the developing world, bankers point to a significant hurdle—one the World Bank and other public sector financiers have yet to remove. The problem, they say, is data. Executives from banks, including Citigroup...
13Jan
Cheers to the New Year
Happy New Year, 2023 was a phenomenal year for climate and SDG’s investment leadership under Africa’s COP27 Presidency. Ai was pleased to see its MDB Reform Roadmap recommendations endorsed by shareholders this year and to champion the institutional investor voice at President Macron's New Global Financial...
15Dec
Africa investor (Ai) at COP28 Newsletter
Ai and Global investors issue Heads of State Call to Action at COP28 Announced during the Leaders Summit at COP28 in Dubai, to fight climate change and deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals announced, Africa investor and 9 other global institutional investment organisations. Announced during the...
11Dec
His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan highlights United Arab Emirates commitments to Africa at Conference of the Parties (COP28)
His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State, participated in the ‘Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit’ at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which is currently being held at Expo City Dubai. During a...
11Dec
Mercer unpacks Asset Allocation at The COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit
Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people advising trillions of institutional assets, shared asset allocation assumptions at the COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit, hosted by the COP28 Presidency, in...
09Dec
Investable Green Industrial Cities Standards previewed at COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Summit
While Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are well-recognised place-based investment tools for economic development, there is an urgent need to evolve bankability models and practices in the direction of investable Green Industrial Cities (GICs). GICs are destinations that nurture productive, long-term growth and attract industrial capital...
06Dec