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Asset Allocation Insights 2021 highlights how pension fund investors within Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are evolving across the global investment landscape while serving their beneficiaries and stakeholders locally. It summarises some of the decisions investors in these regions – representing more than…

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region’s exposure to fossil fuels is often high up on the agenda of items potential investors want to cover when Franklin Templeton Investments meet with them to discuss the GCC bond asset class. This paper aims to explore why the asset class is not just about oil and natural gas exposure.…

All Arab countries, except for three, have deficits in their pension funds exceeding 50%. As for the three countries, two of them started their social insurance relatively late and the third one had to significantly recapitalise its fund early last decade. Likewise, these three countries are not immune from deficits of…

Accessing the global technology sector in a Shariah-compliant way with the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) Global Technology Titans 50 Index.

This survey covers global private capital updates the first half of 2021 with data on fundraising, investment and exit activity across Asia, Latin America, Africa, CEE and the Middle East.

Individuals are expected to be rational and follow the approach prescribed under different traditional finance theories while constructing portfolios. In reality, studies from different parts of the world show that individuals do not act rationally due to cognitive limitations and the influence of emotions and feelings.…

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) involves the trapping of man-made CO2 underground in order to avoid its release into the atmosphere. Because of the scale with which it could be applied, CCS is identified as a critical technology to reduce CO2 emission to achieve global climate goals.

In episode 1 of 'Your Property Pulse' podcast, Faisal Durrani, Partner, Head of Middle East Research at Knight Frank, is joined by Adam Wynne, David Crook and Umberto Bevilacqua from the UAE Commercial real estate team, discussing the UAE's commercial nerve centres, focusing specifically on the UAE's two biggest commercial…

In this virtual event, panelists present the landscape and the process of issuing Labelled Sukuk in order to mobilise financing for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of IsDB Member Countries (especially Uzbekistan, the host country for this year’s Annual Meetings), discuss market trends and share the…

As cash transactions give way to digital, what changes can the region’s banks and payments providers expect to see in the next few years?

This paper assesses the effects of a negative oil price shock on the real GDP and its demand and supply components for nine Arab oil-exporting countries, namely: Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Arab Region Fintech Guide was prepared by Nouran Youssef from the Arab Monetary Fund and Mirna Sleiman from Fintech Galaxy Limited with the contribution and comments of Arab Central banks, members of the Arab Regional Fintech Working Group. The Arab Regional Fintech Guide is based on findings of a survey directed to the…

Josette Rizk, Director of Institutional Clients for the Middle East & Africa at Invesco, discusses their study on the consequences of the pandemic on public finances for the Middle East's sovereign wealth funds and central banks. She speaks with Bloomberg's Manus Cranny on 'Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East…

This report explores the drivers and implications of the shift from global to local supply chains in the Middle East’s Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Levant regions, analysing the drivers of localisation for both governments and corporations, key localisation sectors, and how the pandemic has impacted localisation trends…

As the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals company, Saudi Aramco continues to invest in technologies and innovative business models to enable the sustainable use of hydrocarbon resources across the value chain. In this podcast David Ledesma discusses with Yasser Mufti, Vice President Strategy & Market…

The development of sustainable finance continues to evolve across the Middle East – a region more readily associated with conventional energy resources such as oil and gas. Governments around the world continue to focus on climate policies and transition targets and the spotlight remains on green bonds and sustainable…

This is a curated compilation of Fitch Ratings’ in-depth research and commentary. This edition takes a deep dive into GCC Sovereigns, Oil and Gas, Corporates & Infrastructure, and Banks and reflects Fitch views on the GCC as at August 2020.

In this webinar, Moody’s Analytics economists discuss the Middle East’s macroeconomic outlook.

Jan Friederich, Head of MEA Sovereigns, and Toby Iles, Lead GCC Sovereign Analyst, discuss GCC fiscal prospects amid higher oil prices, Oman’s medium term fiscal plan and the tension between fiscal consolidation and diversification in the region.

This technical presentation outlines the economics of hydrogen production for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) covering, blue, green and grey hydrogen together with other renewables.