Diversifying Beyond · 2027 Cohorts

Hosts & partners

Hosted inside the institutions — peer exchange between allocators, not a manager pitching product to a prospect. Host institutions for 2027 will be confirmed for each cohort.

Access

Hosted inside the institutions

Delegates engage in boardroom-format dialogue with the people who run global institutional portfolios. Sessions take place at leading venues and inside host institutions in each location, with delegation transport arranged by AOA.

Precedent · Autumn 2026 cohort

Hosts of the Autumn 2026 cohort

  • Global equity

    Edgbaston Investment Partners

    Building international equity exposure in a long-term DC portfolio, and a readiness working roundtable on a global equity mandate.

  • Listed markets

    London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

    The market behind the mandate: LSEG’s role in UK DC investing, from listed products to FTSE Russell benchmarks.

  • Specialist credit

    Marsham Investment Management

    Building the DC income engine with specialist credit and climate-transition strategies.

  • Blended finance

    Allied Climate Partners & Three Cairns Group

    How pension capital can enter infrastructure credit behind catalytic first-loss capital.

  • Infrastructure

    ARM-Harith

    Structuring, de-risking and local-currency solutions that give asset owners confidence in African infrastructure.

  • Asset owner

    Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

    How one of the UK’s largest pension schemes designs, builds and governs its portfolio across DB and DC.

  • Capital markets

    Chemonics, with LuSE and FCDO MOBILIST

    Crowding domestic and global capital into climate ETFs and bonds.

  • Housing finance

    Baylis

    From member lending to a mortgage platform.

  • Due diligence

    Kapnative

    Modernising manager due diligence for African asset owners with structured workflows and AI tools.

  • Legal

    White & Case

    Legal architecture for global allocation, from regulatory ceiling to investable mandate.

  • Private credit

    Enko Capital

    Catalytic capital in practice: private credit for African pension funds.

  • Convenor

    Asset Owners Africa

    Programme design, chairing and property portfolio strategy.

Precedent · June 2026 cohort

Hosts of the Summer 2026 cohort

The Summer Cohort ran across five consecutive days in London, with a closed-door Asset Owners Roundtable for CEOs, CIOs and MDs at the Corinthia London. Sessions covered dynamic asset allocation, private markets, the future of passive investing, ESG and stewardship, and a live transaction deep-dive on a local-currency ABS backed by MTN tower lease cashflows.

  • Lane Clark & Peacock

  • BlackRock

  • T. Rowe Price

  • Enko Capital

  • Ninety One

  • UBS Asset Management

  • Edgbaston Investment Partners

  • Barclays UK Retirement Fund

  • J.P. Morgan

Strategic stakeholder engagements

Optional briefings

Subject to confirmation, optional briefings with policymakers and regulators, and site visits to institutional infrastructure assets financed by global asset owners.

Host or partner with Diversifying Beyond

Global asset owners, managers and advisors who want to engage with African allocators on live mandates are invited to speak to the convenor.

Contact the convenor

Diversifying Beyond

Explore the programme

  • Programme

    An implementation platform engineered to bridge the gap between strategic intent and live execution.

  • Dates & locations

    Diversifying Beyond runs four cohorts in 2027 across the UK, the UAE and the United States.

  • Practitioners

    Diversifying Beyond is led by Asset Owners Africa with practitioners from global asset owners, fund managers and advisors. Practitioners for the 2027 cohorts will be announced.

  • Resources

    The procurement and governance papers your institution may need.

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