UAE Remains Top Pick For Middle Eastern Property Investors
The UAE’s residential market remains the top pick for investors from the Middle East and North Africa region, according to…
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World’s top SWFs failing on transparency
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) across Asia and the Middle East, which count themselves among the world’s top institutional investors, are…
Gulf Region Investment in U.S. Real Estate Surges 51%
Persian Gulf investors from sovereign wealth funds to rich individuals increased spending on U.S. real estate, attracted by the pace…
Middle East sovereign funds increasing allocation to home markets
Middle East sovereign investors who account for $1.4 trillion of assets managed globally are allocating significantly high portion of their…
GCC Investors look to UAE for local investment opportunities and perceived "safe haven" status amidst Geopolitical Turmoil-Invesco study
The report noted that the UAE saw total private capital inflows of 81% on a net respondent view basis in…
Developing Islamic finance through research
In response to the slow growth of Islamic banking and finance, OJK organized the Islamic Finance Research Forum. Scholars and…
CIIB study explores methods encouraging Islamic financial sector
Citi Islamic Investment Bank, a member of Citi, released an independent qualitative research study that explores methods of encouraging and…
Are US expats in UAE thinking of giving up passports?
Nobody likes taxes and if you are an expat from the US then you probably dislike one in particular, the…
Oman Islamic Finance Report 2015 released
The report is the latest in the series of Islamic Finance Country Reports (IFCR) designed to provide key insights on…
Turkey's Garanti Bank sees future of banking defined by mobility
The banking industry has embraced mobility in a big way in many foreign markets, including Turkey, where Garanti Bank pays…
Islamic finance will become a norm in near future: Experts
Islamic finance will become a norm rather than an alternative — as it is currently — in the near future,…
Wealth growth in the GCC has outpaced global growth since 2000
The Credit Suisse Research Institute today released its fifth annual Global Wealth Report, which finds that from mid-2013 to mid-2014…