3rd October, 2024
Facing revenue and spending pressures, two southern African countries – Zambia and Botswana – are examining proposals for sovereign wealth funds with a stabilization mandate, but given their structural challenges and spending pressures the plans maybe too little, too late.
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4th September, 2024
Angola’s sovereign wealth fund, Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), is becoming steadily more active as it continues to find its feet as it recovers its reputation from the corruption scandal revealed in 2018 in the so-called Panama Papers.
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8th August, 2024
Libya’s sovereign wealth fund was one of the victims of the collapse of order in the North African state, restricted by sanctions and legal disputes since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime amid the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and the resulting civil war.
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8th July, 2024
Governance issues are an enduring concern for nascent African sovereign wealth funds and while Mozambique is looking for best practice in establishing a commodity-backed SWF, neighboring Zimbabwe is accused by anti-corruption watchdogs of failing to meet adequate standards in the operations of the Mutapa Investment Fund.
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7th March, 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa is the final frontier for state-owned investors (SOIs), offering potential large rewards – but also significant challenges. For patient investors capable of honing in on good deals, the region offers significant long-term returns that could generate big yields, as well as demonstrating their commitment to sustainable development goals.
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13th February, 2024
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) is flexing its financial muscles as it edged out of a UN sanctions regime with news that it is preparing a hostile takeover of South Africa’s Legacy Hotels via its Libyan African Investment Company (LAICO) subsidiary’s Ensemble Hotel brand.
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3rd October, 2023
Renamed the Mutapa Investment Fund after the vast kingdom that covered modern Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s sovereign wealth fund is expanding rapidly raising concerns that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is building an empire beyond the remit of the constitution.
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1st August, 2023
Among the newest sovereign wealth funds in Africa, the Fonds Souverain de Djibouti (FSD) can be considered a hidden gem. The fund was established in 2020 to help improve governance and catalyze investments in strategic sectors to build long-term wealth for future generations. We had the great pleasure of speaking with its CEO, Mr. Slim Feriani, about the fund’s history, current status and developments, and future plans.
31st July, 2023
Mozambique is set to relaunch its plans for a sovereign wealth fund funded by LNG exports, which stalled in recent years amid instability in the country’s gas-rich north.
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7th July, 2023
On Thursday and Friday this week, Agaciro Development Fund hosted the second annual meeting of the African Sovereign Investors Forum (ASIF) in Kigali, Rwanda. The Forum was started by Morocco’s Ithmar Capital last year in Rabat in an attempt to increase collaboration among African SWFs, to compare notes of common challenges, and to create appealing, sizeable, Pan-African investment opportunities for foreign (e.g., Middle Eastern) SWFs.
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6th July, 2023
On June 30, Global SWF published the 2023 GSR Scoreboard that assesses the progress of State-Owned Investors around governance, sustainability, and resilience since 2020. There has been significant improvement in best practices globally during the past three years, including resilience factors.
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1st June, 2023
If we talk about emerging SWFs with a specific focus, we need to talk about MIC, which was established in June 2020 to support and accelerate the economic development of Mauritius, grow national wealth, and build the country’s long-term economic resilience. We had the great pleasure of speaking with CEO Jitendra Bissessur about the fund’s origins and plans.