Africa investor hosted its 9th annual Pension and Sovereign Wealth Funds Leaders’ Summit on September 19th, 2016 on the eve of the US Africa Business Summit at the NASDAQ in New York. The Summit convened leaders of US and African pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, banks, and infrastructure investors to share investment strategies and co-investment opportunities and recommend specific actions that the US administration could implement to facilitate US institutional investment in Africa.
These recommendations for the US government
are centre stage of the Africa-US Business Partnership Agenda: Setting forth specific actions required for US pension funds and other institutional investors to access the required information to assess investment opportunities, formulate investment strategies, mitigate risks, and identify the required partners for execution and co-investment (African, U.S., and others already investing in Africa).
