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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...

Dubai’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Istithmar World is halting investments

On Friday, Bloomberg said Istithmar World is freezing investments as part of a restructuring process that may result in sale of the fund or...

Investment Corporation of Dubai joins Long-Term Investors Club

1. Accession agreement signed by ICD CEO H.E. Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani at high-profile event in Paris 2. Paris Conference for Long-Term Value & Economic...

Investment Strategies – Sovereign Wealth Funds back in play

Analysis and Discussion with Jan Randolph of IHS Global Insight

Finance House subsidiary to launch Fund to finance UAE private sector...

Finance House, through its DIFC-registered subsidiary, FH Capital Ltd, today announced that it intends to launch the FH Special Opportunities Fund (SOF), with a...

Dubai Financial Market investor base up 26.48% to 535,563 investor in...

The Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the first regional exchange to go public and the leading Islamic financial market globally, revealed that numbers of investors...

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...

DIFC launches real estate investment fund

DIFC Investments, the investment arm of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), said it is launching a real estate fund that will invest in...

The Significance of GCC Sovereign Funds

A fundamental shift in global finance has thrown the GCC countries into full glare of the world spotlight amid surge of GCC sovereign funds. The...

Treat sovereign funds equally

Sovereign wealth funds should be treated like any other institutional investor and not have special rules imposed on them, Henry Azzam, head of Deutsche...