Tag: Investments
Real Estate emerges as the preferred asset class for Middle East...
Middle East sovereign investors have focused on increasing allocations to infrastructure and private equity over the last two years; however attitudes have changed in...
Investors View Gold as Opportunistic Short-term Investment in Specific Markets
During the first three months of 2015, commodity net inflows reached roughly $7 billion, strongest level in 2.5 years, but Barclays’ analysts doubt the...
Five Safe Investment Themes for 2014
We all want more, more! Greed drives not only the stock markets or the property markets.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Publishes 2012 ADIA Review
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) today published its 2012 ADIA Review, providing a thorough overview of its activities over the past year while...
Sovereign Wealth Funds allocate new assets to private equity
20% of Sovereign Wealth Fund new assets allocated to private equity
Property and infrastructure are not the big SWF ‘alternative investment’ story
Major sovereign governments and...
Got cash? Get invested in UAE stocks now!
Most people are actually out of cash most of the time. Especially after 2008, since the financial storm swept the world, "lack of liquidity"...
Investors Increasingly Bullish as Global Economy Regains Growth Path
‘Great Rotation’ to Equities From Bonds Gets Under Way
Global investors have entered 2013 in buoyant but not yet exuberant mood, according to the BofA...
Private capital pursuing mining and metals investments
Increasing interest in mining and metals from private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises is set to be a key trend in...
‘Why Dubai’ study to update investors worldwide
Dubai FDI, the foreign investment office of the Department of Economic Development (DED), has published an updated study on the distinguishing features that enables...
Destroying the Young with Permanent Bailouts
The tyranny of banking deposit insurance is leading young people to hate 'the market'...
Why aren't young people protesting against bailouts?
Younger adults are usually pretty...
Mutual Funds of ADCB and NBAD at its lowest
Once very profitable investment, mutual funds of UAE-based National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) are now a...
Asian Hedge Funds top Equity Markets again in 2011
Asian hedge funds outperformed volatile regional equity markets in 2011, marking the second consecutive year of such outperformance, according to data released today by HFR
Dubai FDI brings in AED3.44 billion, 77 companies in 2011
Dubai FDI, the foreign investment office in the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, succeeded in attracting and promoting 77 companies in the emirate during 2011.
With $400 billion ‘in play’, hedge funds face challenges
The hedge funds industry faces challenges in 2012, but also a year of significant opportunity, according to a Barclays Capital report, The Money Trail,...
Global investors display renewed optimism; Risk appetite on the rise
Global investors have started 2012 with a reawakened sense of optimism towards the global economy and greater appetite for risk
Brent, corn and gold investments to perform well in 2012
Commodities had an eventful year all-together, but ended the 2011 roughly unchanged. The energy-heavy MLCX TR and S&P GSCI TR indexes returned -2.6% and -1.2%...
Wealth Management Year ahead 2012, Key Investments
Investors should focus on investments that offer yield, quality and diversification amid expectations that the global economy will avoid recession but experience fragile growth in 2012
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...