Executive & board-level immersion for insurers

Insuring Beyond

Inaugural Cohort

Building the investment architecture of African insurance balance sheets — translating liabilities, solvency capital and growth ambitions into live, boardroom-ready investment decisions.

Dates
To be announced
Location
To be announced
Cohort
Insurers & Reinsurers
Format
Two-week Immersion
Bring your delegationRegister interest

Dates to be announced

Dates and location for the inaugural cohort will be announced. Registration of interest is open.

The context

The strategic mandate: insurance capital for long-term growth

African insurers and reinsurers hold some of the continent's most stable long-term capital. Life and annuity books carry long-dated liabilities; general and reinsurance balance sheets need liquidity, resilience and capital efficiency.

Investment portfolios have historically been concentrated in domestic government securities, bank deposits and property, leaving balance sheets exposed to sovereign, currency and inflation risk. Risk-based capital regimes and recapitalisation programmes across major markets are raising the bar — the binding constraint is no longer appetite to diversify, but the capability to do it within solvency, liquidity and governance limits.

Insuring Beyond helps insurance leaders build portfolios that match their liabilities, earn their capital charge and support the real economy — from infrastructure debt and private credit to international diversification and local-currency real assets.

Weeks of focused implementation
2
Live mandate per institution
1
Governance stages completed in the room
8
Core checkpoints
4

Balancing the balance sheet

Two questions every delegation brings

  1. 01

    How can insurers move beyond concentrated domestic sovereign and deposit exposure into infrastructure, private credit and global assets — while staying within solvency capital, liquidity and regulatory limits?

  2. 02

    How can insurance boards translate asset-liability strategy into live, approvable investment mandates that improve returns per unit of capital and protect policyholders?

Three layers of value

From strategic intent to live execution

  • Industry impact

    Raising the standard for insurance investment

    Liability-led, capital-aware decision-making and rigorous manager protocols that accelerate the sophistication of African insurance portfolios.

  • Organisational resilience

    A mandate-tailored, capital-efficient deployment kit

    An ALM-aligned roadmap, solvency-tested allocation matrix, vetted managers and governance playbooks — compressing decision-to-deployment timelines.

  • Leadership equity

    The fluency to lead balance-sheet transformation

    Hands-on due-diligence mastery, access to a vetted peer network, and the credibility to champion new asset classes to boards and regulators.

Institutional deliverables

What each delegation leaves with

A fully finalised, board-ready investment pack designed for immediate review by the Investment Committee, Risk Committee and Board of Directors.

  • Board-approved investment mandate

    A written implementation strategy aligned with the board's risk appetite, liability profile and solvency targets.

  • Capital and liquidity impact assessment

    Each opportunity tested for its solvency capital charge, liquidity needs and asset-liability fit before it goes to committee.

  • Validated implementation shortlist

    A vetted pipeline of managers, transaction structures and co-investment opportunities matched to the mandate.

  • Committee approval documentation

    A committee-ready submission pack, with a governance approval workplan and a 90-day execution framework with clear executive accountability.

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Inside the programme

Participation is by invitation and remains curated

Every institution arrives with an investment priority, a capital constraint and an internal decision pathway. Every institution leaves with a mandate its board can act on.

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