Citywire Alternatives & Private Markets Forum 2026

Gemcorp Capital catalyses’ growth through innovative financing structures across private credit (incl. commodity-backed credit), private equity and infrastructure investing.
 
This presentation will provide a deep dive on how capital is traditionally deployed across the infrastructure investment cycle and highlight how later-stage assets can create attractive opportunities for capital recycling and optimisation.
 
We will explore how private capital can finance critical infrastructure projects across emerging markets, enabling the development of real assets with strong fundamentals and long-term growth drivers.
 
In addition, we will explore how active risk management can help mitigate the risks of investing in emerging markets, demonstrating how capital and expertise can be tailored to diverse risk profiles, generating attractive risk-adjusted investment returns.
 
In conclusion, the presentation explores how a capital structure agnostic approach ensures solutions are tailored to private market investments.

Workshop Objective: Provide practical insight into emerging market investment opportunities, showing how flexible private capital structures can be tailored to different risk profiles, project stages, and growth strategies.

Company Profile: Gemcorp Capital is a privately owned investment group focused on unleashing the potential in emerging markets. We combine decades of experience with financial discipline and local knowledge to deliver long-term value for investors and sustainable growth in the economies we invest in.

Our core focus is emerging market private credit, structuring and managing solutions that make complex markets investable for global investors. With deep roots across Africa and other growth regions, we look to unlock opportunities that offer genuine alpha and diversification. We mitigate risks through disciplined underwriting and innovative structuring, deploying capital in sectors critical to economic resilience and development.

Additionally, we manage complementary strategies in trade finance, liquid markets and special situations, each underpinned by the same investment discipline and conviction-based philosophy.

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 3 Big Resets impacting the world as we know it and how they speak to digital assets and their role within those 3 Big Resets 

Workshop Objective: Develop an understanding of digital assets and their role in Financial Markets.

Company Profile: In the realm of asset management, tradition and innovation often exist in parallel lanes. But, in the summer of 2023, three old school asset managers dared to merge these lanes into a thrilling new pathway, establishing MidSquare - an ambitious start-up focused on the limitless potential of digital assets.

MidSquare sprouted from a desire to explore new frontiers. As founders, with a wealth of experience in traditional asset management, we found ourselves wanting to explore new and innovative ways of delivering the best outcomes for clients. We imagined a radical reimagining of the space, one that wasn’t simply evolving with the times, but actively shaping them.

Alpha Beyond Africa explores the compelling private-equity opportunity set available to African allocators beyond the continent. As public markets continue to shrink and concentrate, private markets now represent a significantly larger, more diverse and more innovative investable universe.
Global private equity has consistently outperformed both public markets and African private equity, underscoring the opportunity cost of remaining locally concentrated. By accessing global themes, from technology and healthcare to industrial innovation, African allocators can strengthen diversification, improve risk-adjusted returns and participate in value creation at scale.
The presentation highlights that allocating beyond Africa is not simply opportunistic, but increasingly essential for long-term portfolio resilience and performance.

Workshop Objective: We will demonstrate, through our 19-year track record, how African allocators can unlock superior returns, diversification, and long‑term resilience by accessing global private equity opportunities beyond the continent.

Company Profile: Old Mutual Alternative Investments is one of Africa’s largest alternative asset managers, with approximately ZAR147.1 billion (US$8.3 billion) in assets under management. 

Backed by over two decades of investment experience, we manage a diverse portfolio of 250 – 300 companies across infrastructure, private equity, hybrid capital, diversified credit and impact investing.

Our disciplined due diligence, strategic insight, and deep local expertise enable us to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns while creating meaningful, lasting impact.

Learn more at www.oldmutualalternatives.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

*Attributed to Old Mutual Alternative Investments at 30 June 2025

Principal Asset Management has a proven track record in data centers, managing $11 billion in assets and completing 28 transactions across 20 markets in 6 countries since 2007. Supported by 137 global real estate professionals and a powerful network of relationships across the data center ecosystem, we deliver resilient income and long-term value creation. As part of our $100 billion global real estate platform—ranked among the top 10 managers in the U.S.—we bring deep expertise and disciplined asset selection. This presentation will cover our capabilities, expertise, and market coverage, highlight the US and European market opportunity, and outline plans for capital raising for our third U.S. fund and second European fund in 2026.

Workshop Objectives: Join our workshop to explore Principal Asset Management’s $100B real estate platform, data center expertise, and market opportunities in the US and Europe, along with our capabilities, experience, and global coverage.

Company Profile: Principal Investor Management (DIFC) Limited (“Principal”), specializes in distributing and promoting asset management products and services from Principal Asset Management, the global investment solutions business for Principal Financial Group® which manages US$1.7 trillion in AuA for more than 1,100 institutional clients in more than 80 markets worldwide.  Principal Asset Management manages over US$753 billion in AuM in public markets, private markets and solutions strategies.  Principal is registered in the Dubai International Financial Centre and authorized by the Dubai Financial Services Authority as an Authorised Firm serving institutional investors, pension plan sponsors and sovereign wealth fund managers in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. 

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