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...
GCC markets ended 2015 in red zone due to volatile oil...
Trading activities fell due to negative sentiments over the region
Market capitalization declined 11.4%YoY in 2015
GCC markets close lower in 2015
GCC markets closed lower in...
Frontier Markets ETFs Soared in May
The iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF is proving Thursday's massive volume spike was not a fluke. Along with some other frontier markets ETFs ,...
Correlation between UAE’s and global equity markets remains positive
Average correlation of Abu Dhabi and Dubai markets with the global markets remains positive during the years of a financial downturn.
The UAE equity markets...
Immigration as an Investment Model
As capital markets continue to expand in places like China and India, while access to Western countries continue to become more restrictive, entrepreneurs from...
National Bank of Abu Dhabi launched a $5 billion euro medium...
National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) launched a $5 billion euro medium term note programme (EMTN).
NBAD is the second largest bank in the...
Mid-Year Outlook 2022: Investing in the Afterglow of a Boom
After a tough start to 2022, Citi explores what may lie ahead for investors, highlighting quality and resilience in portfolios.
Citi Global Wealth Investments released...
Investors Should Be Cautious Due to Rising Global Markets Uncertainty
Global equities performed negatively during the week on the back of weak economic data, worries of a second pandemic wave and the timid recovery...
UAE Among World’s Top Markets with Highest Trust
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, recently published Enhancing Investors’ Trust – the 2022 CFA Institute Investor Trust Study, the fifth in...
Small business finance in the search of innovative solutions
Alternative Financing - the small business finance alternative during economic uncertainty
As a consequence of the distressed and even recovering economy, few commercial lenders are...
CFA Emirates congratulates new charterholders at Annual Charter award ceremony
Last night the President and Board of CFA Emirates, the association for financial and investment professionals, hosted its annual charterholder ceremony at the Burj...
Emirates Green Building Council’s to develop green financing scheme
Joins hands with Dubai Carbon Centre for Excellence to address challenges of funding green retrofit projects
Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum aimed...
UAE Banks will continue financing the economic sector
Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, State Minister for Financial Affairs, has directed the banks to continue financing basic economic sectors, in order to help sustain...
DFM and Citibank sign custody agreement
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today signed a Depository Participant Agreement (DPA) with Citibank. The agreement will enable Citibank to provide custody of DFM-listed securities...
Latest Middle East Asset Management Study from Invesco
Invesco Asset Management Limited today unveiled the findings of its inaugural Invesco Middle East Asset Management Study. This regional study is the...
Moody’s downgrades Dubai Holding Commercial Operations bonds to B3
Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded to B3 from B2 the notes issued by Dubai Holding Commercial Operations MTN Ltd. under its Medium Term...
Financial systems across the world are stalling
World Economic Forum Financial Development Report 2012 shows that financial systems across the world are stalling
Hong Kong tops the Financial Development Index; top six...
Upcoming corporate earnings announcements will influence regional markets
The global markets continued the positive momentum during the week on the back of optimism over a positive outcome from US-China trade talks. Trade...