Impact Capital Supply

Recommendations:

Unlock institutional investment for impact through Asset Owners Forum South Africa

  • To proactively respond to proposals for prescribed assets, through clearly defined engagement in investment into infrastructure and impact investing
  • Develop a framework to infrastructure investing from a pension funds’ perspective.
  • Develop a framework to impact investing from a pension funds’ perspective.
  • Identify and address regulatory barriers to infrastructure and impact investing

Unlock institutional investment for impact through Asset Owners Forum South Africa

  • Design purpose-built investment vehicle comprised of different pools of capital with varying risk/return requirements working together under a collective investment mandate to invest in funds that invest working and/or growth capital into Small and Growing Businesses

Projects:

SA Impact Investment Forum 2018 and 2019 in partnership with SA Investment Conference

GSG Pension fund strand 2020

RisCura Pension Fund event and brief 2019

Batseta Conference 2020

 

Objectives:

Increase the supply of capital available for high impact enterprises and projects

  • Increase the total supply of capital that is demonstrably spent on enterprises and projects that directly address the NDP/SDGs
  • Increase in amount of appropriate capital across risk return spectrum, particularly patient, flexible, risk tolerant capital
  • Increase the number of investor types and individual organisations or individuals who deploy impact investment

Improve the match between capital and investable opportunities

  • Increase number of impact investment products available to all types of investors

Create an enabling environment to increase the deployment of impact investment

  • Remove regulatory barriers and develop enabling policy to unlock the flow of impact investment
Working Group members:
Chair
Sazini Mojapelo
Secretariat members
Misha Morar Joshi
Shiluba Mawela
Malcolm Fair
RisCura
Heather Jackson
Ashburton Investment
Nigel Beck
Standard Bank
Jonathan First
DBSA
Basil Maseko
National Treasury
Sazini Mojapelo
ABSA
Shelley Lotz
SAVCA
Ndabe Mkhize
EPPF