Building on its 2025 success, the African Markets Conference 2026 reframes Africa from perceived risk to investable resilience, creating a platform where policy ambition meets market reality to mobilise capital at scale.

Gold delivered historic gains in 2025. Schroders’ James Luke explores the structural drivers behind the surge, parallels with the 1970s, and why gold’s role as a core, anti-fragile asset may endure.

Ashburton Investments’ Albert Botha examines the outlook for South African interest rate cuts, global influences on SARB policy, and what a lower long-term repo rate could mean for the economy and borrowers.

Sanlam Investments returns as headline sponsor of AGES 2026, reinforcing its commitment to mobilising global capital for Africa’s green economy through investment-ready projects driving sustainable growth and impact.

Momentum Asset Management has appointed Mario Fisher as CIO Systematic Strategies, effective January 2026, bringing nearly 30 years of quantitative and investment leadership experience to strengthen and scale its systematic investing capability as part of a planned leadership transition.

The harmonisation of the FTSE/JSE ALSI aligns index methodologies, reduces offshore weighting distortions, and reflects evolving sector dynamics, while leaving Allan Gray’s bottom-up investment approach unchanged, using the index as a reference rather than a constraint.