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Improved Growth Outlook Supports Keeping Faith With Equities

Global investors are keeping faith with equities while raising cash as markets enter the volatile year-end period, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund...

GCC investors have very high target return expectations

GCC investors in general have high expectations in regard to the returns of their investments, because the majority of them lacks long term experience. The...

Investors Turning to Cash as Geopolitics and Interest Rate Rise...

Europe Bears Brunt of Falling Sentiment but Emerging Markets Thrive Rising geo-political temperatures combined with the threat of rising U.S. interest rates have led global...

MENA Investors Shift Focus from UAE Residential to Hospitality Market

UAE's residential market continues to be the most preferred investment choice for MENA investors. According to JLL’s 2014 MENA Investors Sentiment Survey, the regional...

MENA Investors Cautious due to Heightened Risk in Geopolitical Environment

Global equity markets closed on a mixed note, taking a breather after a sharp rise in 2019. The heightened geopolitical risk in the Middle...

Fund Manager Survey finds investors less positive

Global investors are moderating their earlier exuberance in the face of somewhat lower conviction over global growth, though they remain positive towards equity markets...

Sovereign Wealth Funds could invest as much as $725b in real...

Sovereign Wealth Funds could, potentially, invest as much as $725 billion over the next seven years, states a new report by CB Richard...

Investor confidence in Dubai as hub for FDI in Middle East...

The Foreign Investment Office (FIO), an agency of the Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED), has commissioned an in-depth special study to further enhance...

Asia-Pacific’s HNWI Population exceeds Europe’s for First Time

Wealth Management Firms Need to Offer Capabilities from Other Business Units to Meet Demands of Asia-Pacific HNWIs Asia-Pacific’s population of high net worth individuals (HNWIs1) grew...

Rising investor demand for growth stimulus

Fund Manager Survey Finds Rising Investor Demand for Growth Stimulus Expectations Grow of Further ECB Easing by Year-end A growing majority of global investors would like...

UBS Investor Sentiment: Investor Optimism Drops on Inflation, Geopolitical Concerns

Optimism among high-net-worth investors dipped to early-pandemic levels on continuing concerns about the economic and market impact of inflation and the war in Ukraine,...

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...

Most investors believe fiscal cliff is not yet priced in to...

BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds - U.S. Fiscal Cliff Dampens Rising Economic Optimism While positive sentiment towards the global economy and equities continues...

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...

Fund Manager Survey finds Sovereign Debt Fears easing as Investors anticipate...

Global investors appear to be coming to terms with the prospect of a default by the Greek government, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch...

Easing of Restrictions in Domestic Markets, Recovery in Oil Prices to...

Global equities continued the positive trajectory for the second consecutive week on the back of optimism over gradual reopening of several economies across the...

Brexit Investor Sentiment

British voters have shocked financial markets on Friday by choosing to have the United Kingdom exit the European Union. So far, the "Brexit" vote is...

Optimism outweighs fears of Fiscal Cliff

Signs That Great Rotation out of Bonds Into Equities Is Starting Confidence in the outlook for China’s economy has surged to a three-year high, underpinning...