African Infrastructure Investment Managers

The firm sources transactions through a long-established network of local operating partners, government relationships, and corporate contacts built over more than two decades of investing in sub-Saharan Africa. Its position within a broader financial services group provides additional origination channels through banking and corporate advisory relationships. This deep in-country presence gives the firm access to privately negotiated infrastructure transactions that rarely reach the broader auction market.

African Infrastructure Investment Managers is a specialist fund manager, not a family office. It operates as a dedicated infrastructure investment affiliate within the Old Mutual Alternative Investments group, raising discretionary closed-end funds from institutional investors including South African pension funds and international development finance institutions.

The firm targets economic infrastructure assets across power generation and renewables, midstream energy infrastructure, transport assets including toll roads and ports, and digital infrastructure covering terrestrial fiber networks and data centers. The strategy favors operating assets with long-dated, inflation-linked cash flows rather than greenfield development projects.

The portfolio is concentrated in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community region, including countries such as Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique. The firm has also made selective investments in East Africa and West Africa, though South Africa remains the anchor geography for deal flow.

The capital base consists primarily of large South African pension funds and asset managers, alongside development finance institutions and a limited number of international institutional investors. The firm does not raise capital from retail investors or high-net-worth individuals, maintaining an exclusively institutional funding structure (per public record).

African Infrastructure Investment Managers executes direct equity investments in infrastructure operating companies, typically acquiring control positions or significant minority stakes with strong governance rights. The firm does not operate a fund-of-funds program; all capital is deployed directly into portfolio companies.

The firm is an investment affiliate within Old Mutual Alternative Investments, the private markets division of Old Mutual Limited, a financial services group listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It retains its own dedicated investment team, investment committee, and fund structures while benefiting from the operational infrastructure of a large regulated asset manager.