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Making Development Investable: IIPP Architecture Launched for the World Bank Spring Meetings

GEMs3.0 Media2026-03-27T09:01:46+00:00

WASHINGTON, D.C. — April 2026 Global institutionally managed portfolios now exceed $145 trillion globally, yet private capital mobilisation into infrastructure, industrial systems, and transition assets remains structurally limited. The constraint is not capital availability. It is the absence of systems that translate development priorities into allocatable institutional exposure. The implication is structural: Not making investment developmental, but making development investable. Institutional investors...

Ai Presses EU to Cut Capital Costs and Mobilise European Institutional Co-Investors for GreenAlpha Asset Class

GEMs3.0 Media2025-11-25T19:32:40+00:00

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 African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB) as the Institutional Investor–Public...

New G20 Investor Cost-of-Capital Framework Quantifies Trillions in Lost Returns from Fiduciary Inefficiency

GEMs3.0 Media2025-11-24T07:24:36+00:00

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 divergence between emerging-market fundamentals and market-implied risk premia — driven...

EIB Over-Reached in Denying Access to Meeting Minutes, Appeals Body Says

GEMs3.0 Media2025-05-16T13:59:35+00:00

An unjustified assertion of blanket secrecy for the minutes of a meeting is inconsistent with the transparency policy at the European Investment Bank, according to a ruling in a complaint brought by Eye on Global Transparency. The decision might eventually provide new insight into the workings of consortium that controls a major international database. The EIB must now reconsider its initial...

Unlocking value from technology and AI for institutional investors

GEMs3.0 Media2025-01-30T19:18:46+00:00

Strategy, tools, and talent are key considerations for institutional investors as they adopt and scale technology to generate alpha.

It is difficult to talk about investment success without mentioning technology innovation, AI, and generative AI. The investment landscape has fundamentally shifted over the years—but where are the world’s largest investors on this journey? Many institutional investors, be it pensions, insurers, or sovereign...

EIB Complaints Body Supports Disclosures on GEMs Licensing Deal

GEMs3.0 Media2024-12-20T09:59:43+00:00

The European Investment Bank Complaints Mechanism has recommended that the EIB reconsider withholding key information about the terms of an agreement to license GEMs data to a private company. The 2019 licensing agreement with ILX, a Dutch investment company, was unusual as the only instance in which the EIB granted a private company access to the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) Risk...