GABORONE – Pension fund managers are expected to participate in a landmark conference where they will discuss leveraging Botswana’s abundant foreign reserves to finance local infrastructure projects like sewage catchment areas as well as water retention and decontamination projects.
With this in mind, MNCapital Group and African Alternative will host the first-ever Botswana Infrastructure Investment (BII) Summit and the Botswana Asset Owners and Managers (BwAOM) Forum on the 20th and 21st February 2019 respectively.
“The summit convenes public and private sector stakeholders to examine traditional and alternative sources of financing for Botswana’s infrastructure need. In addition, the asset owner’s forum explores the role of pension funds and insurers have to play in Botswana’s infrastructure financing ecosystem,” Michael Ndinisa, MNCapital Group Chief Executive Officer(CEO).
The summit is first step towards developing an ecosystem of asset owners, fund managers and investment professionals with an appetite to invest in infrastructure.
It will commence the industry-led efforts to address the lack of deep in-house experience which prevents trustees and investment committees from safely allowing their investment teams to invest in infrastructure.
At the same leverage of the expertise of professionals and investors across Africa to develop infrastructure investment products specific to the needs of Botswana.
Some speakers and discussion leaders that will be present include:
- Gosego January, Chief Executive Officer/PO – Debswana Pension Fund
- Davies Pwele, Head: SADC Coverage, Business Development – Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)
- Vuyo Hlompho Ntoi, Investment Director – Head of Southern and Central Africa – African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM)
- Ahmed Attout, Chief Capital Markets Officer – African Development Bank (AfDB)
- Nathaniel Munetsi, Head of Structured Finance – Gauteng Infrastructure Financing Agency
- Bishop Joshua Maponga III, Chief Executive Officer – Farmers of Thought Institute
- Snowden Madi, Technical Infrastructure Expert – Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
- Symerre Grey-Johnson, Head of Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade – NEPAD
MNCAPITAL is a leading international investment advisory and communication firm with focus on specialist institutional business development services to emerging and frontier market corporates, governments, pension and sovereign funds. With an integrated range of client services – financial communications, investor relations and public affairs; complimented by our range of conferences and events, executive training programmes; and a professional network that spans the pension funds, sovereign funds, asset and fund managers, and investments community.
