October 2011

WEALTH MANAGEMENT: Service, not salesmen

Three years after the financial crisis and there are still lawsuits flying around the Middle East of allegations that wealth managers mis-sold complex products...

FRONTIER MARKETS: An ‘undiscovered and many times misunderstood market’

Iraq and Palestine are among the world’s most troubled regions, and yet frontier fund managers insist there are big returns for brave investors, writes...

PRIVATE EQUITY: Sunny days ahead for energy investors

Private equity is playing an ever more significant role in the Mena economies. Nick Fitzpatrick finds out why renewable energy is a target for...

CAPITAL MARKETS: What every frontier country aspires to

The United Arab Emirates and Qatar are tantalisingly close to being upgraded to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. But where one other index provider...

FIXED INCOME: Urgently wanted: asset managers

Growth possibilities for the Gulf fixed income market are enormous, but expansion needs the support of a robust asset management industry to reach its...

ROUNDTABLE: Following the spring

Stability may be returning to the Mena region after months of political unrest, albeit slowly, but how has this affected the markets and how...

ASSET SERVICING: Custody banks set down their roots

International custodians have targeted the Mena market in anticipation of increased capital inflows and regulatory changes to the domestic market, all of which are...

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: First of a kind

Qatar management firm Al Rayan Investment is operating in a country where there is a shortage of asset managers but much potential, Akber Khan,...