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 organisations represented:
Chair
Heather Jackson
RisCura
RBN Fund Managers
National Treasury
SAVCA
National Business Initiative
Maia Capital
Sanlam
Public Investment Corporation (PIC)
Rohatyn Group
FSCA
DGMT
Institute of Retirement Funds
Elea