Tamweel requests share trading in 1 month
Tamweel has requested the resumption of trading in its shares in the next month and is in discussions with the UAE federal government over...
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...
Fund Managers Cut Exposure to Emerging Markets Equities
There is a growing sense of bullishness among fund managers across the world. Investors are most enamored by Europe, the continent that has best...
Investors Cautiously Optimistic, FGB Wealth Sentiment Index
FGB, one of the leading banks in the UAE, has announced the first score of its Wealth Sentiment Index, which stands at 1017.41 for...
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...
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...
Latest Investment Trends for GCC Residents
Investors in the GCC - not a homogenous entity and there is a need to tailor products to their investor segment
Life wrappers - preferred...
New Trading Rules for Old Investors
New survival guidelines - new trading rules - to help you hovering over the waves of uncertainty.
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...
Investment behavior of Sovereign Wealth Funds revealed
6% of GCC SWF assets are focused on local development investments
88% of GCC SWF assets are invested internationally for diversification purposes
5% of GCC SWF...
FAB Wealth Sentiment Index down 2.2% in August
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, has announced the latest score of its...
Global Investors Regain Risk Appetite
Investors have regained some appetite for risk with a strong consensus over a U.S. rate rise next month, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch...
UAE investors are building property into their portfolio
49% of UAE investors expect property to perform strongly over the next five years
Most investors hold a low risk or balanced investment portfolio
27% consider...
Regional Investor Appetite Shows Cautious Recovery
Investment trend likely points to oil as commodity inches towards $50
The second week of May saw buyers bravely step back into the markets after...
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...
Increasing ‘risk tolerance’ amongst financial advisors and investors
*According to the 2012 Middle East Investment Panorama (MEIP) report from Insight Discovery
GCC based financial advisors and retail investors are becoming increasingly ‘risk tolerant’...
Rapid Shift to Direct Investing in Hedge Funds by Pension and...
Hedge Funds Managing $1 Billion to $5 Billion Experience Largest Growth
$820 Billion in Direct Money from Pensions and Sovereign Wealth Funds Now Invested in...
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,...