Join the Association
APSA aims to facilitate the growth of pension assets under management in Africa, to ensure the future of our continent. Key areas for collaboration are ensuring that the policy and regulatory environments enable growth, as well as capacity building initiatives, giving pension regulators and supervisors the tools to make bold and informed decisions about policy and regulation, and asset allocation. This particularly in the sphere of sustainable investments, including climate-related opportunities.
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Contribute to an increase in pensions coverage and assets under management that will promote economic development and lead to poverty reduction by ensuring that:
The pension ecosystem operates to optimally attract pension fund contributions and investments into an array of asset classes, for the benefit of our economies and our people on the African continent. -
Facilitate supportive regulatory conditions and a favourable ecosystem for pension reforms by:
Providing a platform for pension regulators and supervisors to collaborate in order to facilitative policy, regulatory and industry environment to support deployment of pension fund assets into the real sector. -
Enhancing sustainable/climate-related investments through:
Information sessions and capacity building initiatives to broaden a real understanding of the benefits of diversification of pension fund investments into sustainable/climate related vehicles, that contribute not only to portfolio risk management but the sustainable growth of our continent, Africa.
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Improved capacity and knowledge of best-practice pensions and asset allocation approaches by:
Working deliberately to increase pension literacy and an awareness of retirement products and investments and the benefits of participating member countries. -
Enhanced understanding of the African pension sector – challenges, opportunities and solutions:
Members will have the opportunity to participate in and benefit from planned research projects that aim to use peer and global best-practice to chart a sustainable path for pension sector development in Africa.
WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER OF APSA
Membership of APSA allows access to a platform for collaboration between pension regulators and supervisors, sharing of best practice and an opportunity to discuss and resolve issues peculiar to the pension environment across Africa. A further benefit is that APSA membership provides African members of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) the chance to represent a united African perspective at IOPS forums. African pension supervisors and regulators will benefit from joining APSA in the following ways:
Leadership in the African pension space
Join an association of leaders in the pension supervisory and regulatory space and create the change needed to realise the potential in the African pension sector
African voice
Present an African view on pension supervision and regulation in global discussions
Technical support
Gain access to technical support in growth areas such as innovative sustainable investment options, benefits and returns
Information and knowledge
Access new and relevant information and knowledge by participating in and access to research that is pertinent to the growth of the pension sector in Africa
Peer networking – African and global
Access to the peer network as well as capacity building and information events and research, and the exciting annual APSA forum, attended by members of the global pension sector
Platform for advocacy
APSA provides a credible platform to advocate for the growth of the pension sector in Africa, both through an increase of domestic assets under management, but also an inflow of pension assets through the creation, allocation, and use of alternative asset classes
