Infra Summit Reflections video

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BlackRock has been servicing African clients for nearly three decades.

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We have brought our global expertise as well as a deep understanding of our local client dynamics in order to great create greater access as well as choice in global investments.

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Hosting our first infrastructure Investment Summit here in South Africa shows our continued commitment to investing here on the continent.

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Africa offers the best opportunity for diversification for managing 1's liabilities towards assets since infrastructure investments are long term by that very nature.

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We're looking at essential infrastructure such as energy, transport, logistics and water.

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And these are not just the financial characteristics, it's the emphasis is on it has real world impact.

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It has an influence on the economy and people's lives and that's important to us.

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Blackrock's global outlook reinforces the need for greater selectivity and risk taking.

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African investors are navigating markets where they're seeing greater volatility as well as a higher for longer rate cycle.

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This requires greater diversification within portfolios where private markets can play a meaningful role, including infrastructure.

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Having global investors on the ground, engaging with the local infrastructure, community and government gives them a better perspective of what's actually happening in South Africa and what are the real risks to manage.

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And what BlackRock has done is to offer us a platform, a platform as capital providers to interact, to see the need for investing within the continent.

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The formal panel sessions, the panel sessions that these summits are important.

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They give you a good perspective on where the market, what's market policies, what are the key trends, where the capital is flowing.

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We heard from the government sector operators as well as investors in terms of what both the opportunities as well as the challenges are to be able to deploy capital and also scale it within the opportunities that that is South Africa.