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EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Notes from a small country

Blominvest is trying to build a funds business in Lebanon, a nation where the appetite for funds is low. The firm’s head of asset...

Notes from a small country

Blominvest is trying to build a funds business in Lebanon, a nation where the appetite for funds is low. The firm’s head of asset...

ASSET SERVICING: Diversity allows for stability and competitiveness

With Saudi Arabia expected to welcome more foreign investment in its securities market, Nicholas Pratt examines the asset servicing landscape and where changes could...

ASSET SERVICING ROUNDTABLE: Products without boundaries

Is the pattern towards more regulated structures playing out in the Mena region as it is elsewhere? The panel considers this and other topics,...

ASSET SERVICING ROUNDTABLE: Products without boundaries

Is the pattern towards more regulated structures playing out in the Mena region as it is elsewhere? The panel considers this and other topics,...

EGYPTIAN STOCK EXCHANGE: Weeks of highs – and lows

This month marks one year since the Egyptian stock exchange reopened for business. Stefanie Eschenbacher looks at trading activity. Egypt’s football riots last month evoked...

US EQUITIES: The best assets in the universe?

That’s an American fund house’s view of US equities. Nick Fitzpatrick asks if the same sentiment is to be found in Dubai. Since the beginning...

CUSTODY BANKING: Protection on a domestic front

The closure of many local brokerage businesses in the Mena region means custody is less available. Though at the same time international custody banks...

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...

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...