Lesotho retirement fund investment forum
To explore and identify what it would take to make significant advances in understanding, integration and implementation country specific best practices in the management, implementation and investment of pensions, retirement and social security funds.
Forum Approach Desired Outcomes
• Bring together leaders from various sectors to discuss legal, regulatory and policy framework; fund investment strategies; environmental, social and governance (ESG) consideration,
fiduciary and other contemporary issues impacting the Lesotho pension fund industry.
• Focus on long-term strategic collaboration with active stakeholders in Lesotho and other regions to advance developments in the industry.
• Incorporate input and evaluate practical case studies from the international and indigenous market; with the aim of benchmarking on developments, opportunities and challenges
• Discuss feasible best practices and innovative approaches that have the potential to make significant progress in the transformation of the Lesotho pensions and retirement fund industry
• New opportunities for collaboration and alliances between asset owners, investment professionals, business, governments and industry associations to improve the understanding and on-going pensions reform
• Proposals for mechanisms that can help prioritise sector specific sustainability framework that maximises indigenous savings into pensions schemes and encourages investment into innovative asset classes
• Identify key areas for further executive education for fund trustees; with focus on fund management, setting and monitoring investment policy, investment strategies and sustainable investing
• Sensitise indigenous institutional funds and national reserves into diversify their investment portfolios into more innovative asset classes, i.e., into infrastructure investment, agribusiness, private equity and so on.
Time: 08:00 - 17:00
Venue: Maseru Sun International, Maseru