Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Comment & Analysis

Northern Trust Survey: Surge in Demand Shows Transparency is Key to Success for Alts Investing

June 20, 2017

As alternative investments become more mainstream, information about investment vehicles, underlying assets and other risk management data has become more…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Businesses begin to feel the heat of Qatar's isolation

June 19, 2017

Companies operating in the Gulf face rising costs and operational uncertainty as they seek to mitigate the impact of the…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Venture capital investment gains popularity as an asset class

June 18, 2017

Venture capital investments in the Middle East and North Africa  region made significant gains last year and are evolving as…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Mena private equity industry faces fund-raising challenges

June 18, 2017

Fund raising remained challenging for the private equity and venture capital business in the region in 2016 and the conditions…

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Executive Moves

Pure Harvest announces advisory board appointments and $4.5 million venture fundraising

June 18, 2017

Following an initial $1.1million to fund land acquisition, technology and pre-development costs earlier this year, Pure Harvest launched a $4.5…

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Comment & Analysis

Saudi Arabia’s public finances seen stabilising by 2020

June 18, 2017

The launch of the Fiscal Balance 2020 Programme in the second half of 2017, the MSCI EM watch list announcement…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Federal Reserve plans to raise interest rate

June 18, 2017

The Federal reserve plans to lift the interest rate once anew later this year and three times next year, reaching…

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Comment & Analysis

UAE ranks high in Global Innovation Index 2017

June 17, 2017

The UAE has improved its standing in the 2017 Global Innovation Index, topping all Arab countries and ranking 35th globally…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Saudi Arabia's Sedco Capital launches green investment strategy

June 16, 2017

Saudi Arabia'sSedco Capital said on Thursday it has launched an investment strategy combining environment-conscious and sharia-compliant principles, as Islamic financial…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Texas Firm Raises $147M on Israeli Bond Market

June 16, 2017

Dallas-based Encore Enterprises became the latest U.S. real estate company to successfully issue debt on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Islamic bond market stunned by ‘unlawful’ sukuk claim

June 15, 2017

The market for Islamic bonds is in turmoil after Dana Gas of the UAE told investors that its $700m sukuk…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

How Does the Middle East’s Startup Scene Compare to the US?

June 15, 2017

Americans often think of startups and entrepreneurial endeavors as being unique to the United States. Even more specifically, unique to…

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