Aabar Investments initiates a process to turn the company private
Aabar Investments board of directors signed off on the plan to turn the company private at a meeting on Thursday. In another meeting,...
Cash, shares, property, gold or silver?
Investors should adjust their risk appetite to austerity measures
Nowadays, investors face hard times, because interest rates are low and cash and government bonds...
Individual investors increase share of equities trading to 11.6% in May...
Individual investors on Nasdaq Dubai increased their share of equities traded value on the exchange to 11.6% in May 2011, up from 8.9% in...
Investment Strategies – Sovereign Wealth Funds back in play
Analysis and Discussion with Jan Randolph of IHS Global Insight
Inflation or Deflation
The biggest risk to economies around the world in 2010 is a growth double dip. Further out, investors remain rightly concerned about hedging tail...
Emirates NBD to increase Foreign Ownership Limit to 40%
Emirates NBD Bank, Emirates NBD, today announced its intention to increase Foreign Ownership Limit, FOL, to 40 percent in the future, and will seek...
Emaar’s new US$ 1 billion financing facility – Testament to financial...
Emaar Properties PJSC has signed a new Islamic and Conventional financing facility amounting to AED 3.6 billion (approx. US$ 1 billion) with Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Standard Chartered Bank as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners.
Fresh EU concerns prompt move to ‘Risk Off’
Growth Expectations Ease While Prospects of QE Return
Investors have scaled back both risk-taking and their expectations for global growth after concerns about European Union...
Investors bullish about prospects for global growth
BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Displaying Growing Conviction in Growth
Portfolio managers indicate that QE era is coming to an end
Investors are increasingly...
International investors attracted by growth prospects in Middle East, says study
1. First Middle East survey on capital markets perceptions and IR practices commissioned by ME-IR Society
2. Thomson Reuters poll of international investors with regional...
UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report 2023: The Great Wealth Transfer
For the first time in nine editions of the report, billionaires have accumulated more wealth through inheritance than entrepreneurship, indicating that the great wealth...
UAE Private Wealth Continues to Soar Amidst Global Decline
Steady gains in global personal wealth slid by more than 5 percentage points in 2018, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group...
CEO Transitions – a risky business when comes to shareholder value
Study Challenges Perceptions of CEO Transitions and the Risk to Enterprise Value
Wealth management firms revise approach to high net worth individuals
Wealth management firms and advisors need to provide a broader and more integrated set of capabilities to meet the complex needs of today’s high...
Investor confidence may continue to rise
Dubai plans to tap the international capital markets as early as next week with its first bond issue since the debt standstill in the...
Investors turn to U.S. and Emerging Markets, Fund Manager Survey
BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Turning to U.S. and Emerging Markets Amid Eurozone Fears
DFM Launches ‘myAccount’ Electronic Service for Dividends Distribution
As part of its strategy to provide market participants with smart and efficient solutions in line with the leadership’s digital transformation vision, the Dubai...
Hedge Funds Plan to Increase Data Services’ Outsourcing
79% of hedge fund and asset managers surveyed plan to increase outsourcing of data services
A global survey of quant fund managers who collectively oversee...