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ROUNDTABLE: Back of house (part 2)

As asset management plays an ever greater role in the Gulf states, asset servicers discuss the evolution of operational and regulatory processes. (part 2) Craig...

Emad Masour, CEO at QFIB

Funds Global talks to Emad Mansour of QFIB about the bank’s plans to bring some much needed variety to the sharia funds market through...

Yousuf Al-Jaida, head of asset management at QFCA

Funds Global talks to the QFC Authority’s head of asset management, Yousuf Al-Jaida, about the development of the industry and the plans for the...

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...

ROUNDTABLE: All about Mena (part 1)

Asset servicers in the Mena region exist for local managers that want to expand internationally, and for international managers that want access to the...

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...

Qatar hero

Nicholas Pratt talks to the QFCA’s Shashank Srivastava about Qatar’s ambitions as a financial centre for the Middle East and the plan to develop...