EQUITIES

HEDGE FUNDS: Catch you if you fall

Mena'€™s fledgling hedge fund industry has an opportunity to prove that absolute-return managers can protect clients from downside risk, finds Nick Fitzpatrick. The eagerly awaited...

MENA FUNDS: Show us the money!

International fund managers expect wealthy individuals in the Mena region to employ funds to gain access to global markets. Yet the same is not...

ISLAMIC ETFs: Slow on the uptake

ETFs have revolutionised the global fund management industry, spawning into a US$1trn business. Yet Islamic ETFs in the Middle East are much slower to...

DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS: Depositaries fuel Mena investments

Depositary receipts are attracting investors to the Middle East, finds Nick Fitzpatrick, who talks to Tarek Elrefai, of BNY Mellon. Certain Mena companies have turned...

It’s who you know

BNP Paribas Investment Partners has raised €9bn from Middle Eastern sovereign funds. Nick Fitzpatrick asks Tariq Al-Samahiji, regional CEO, how this was done. One reason...

The Gulf and beyond

Two years ago Gulf Finance House launched a fund management division. Alan Chalmers talks to Alan Durrant, who heads it, about opportunities in infrastructure...