March 2026
Making Development Investable: IIPP Architecture Launched for the World Bank Spring Meetings
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...
Africa Faces Investability Gap Despite Trillions in Global Capital, Says Dr. Hubert Danso at EIB Forum
At the recent European Investment Bank (EIB) Global Forum, Dr. Hubert Danso, CEO and Chairman of Africa Investor (Ai) Group, highlighted a critical challenge facing Africa’s industrial development: the continent suffers not from a lack of capital, but from a shortage of investable development projects. Speaking at the €300 billion Global Gateway discussion, Dr. Danso emphasized that while global institutional...
EU Global Gateway and the €300bn challenge of making development investable
Mobilising private capital at scale requires designing opportunities around institutional investors’ mandates and creating asset classes capable of absorbing capital.
At the European Investment Bank Global Forum in Luxembourg, the €300 billion Global Gateway initiative confronted a defining question for development finance: how can private capital be mobilised at scale for industrial development? The answer will shape not only the...February 2026
Africa’s Allocation Moment
Institutional capital enters by mandate, not conviction As leaders convene in Addis Ababa for the African Union Summit to advance corridor-scale industrialization and in Munich to debate energy security and industrial resilience, a structural reality binds both agendas: capital concentration has become a strategic vulnerability. Portfolio architecture is now geopolitical architecture. Global institutional portfolios exceed $300tn. More than 70 per cent of...
January 2026
DAVOS – Consequential Africa: Making Development Investable in a Fragmenting Global Economy
London / Johannesburg — launched for Davos 2026 Global institutional portfolios now exceed $300 trillion, yet they face a growing scarcity of assets capable of absorbing capital at scale while delivering duration, diversification, real-economy growth, and resilient returns. Consequential Africa argues that this is no longer a peripheral problem of emerging markets — it is a structural constraint on global portfolio...
November 2025
Ai Presses EU to Cut Capital Costs and Mobilise European Institutional Co-Investors for GreenAlpha Asset Class
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...
World Leaders explore Cultural IP as Engine IP of Economic Development across African Nations at G20
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 roadmap from the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), AXM,...
New G20 Investor Cost-of-Capital Framework Quantifies Trillions in Lost Returns from Fiduciary Inefficiency
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...