White papers and surveys covering issues relating to Middle East Investors. Private wealth in the Middle East region is unusually concentrated and some of the most frequently viewed research on Middle East issues covers family offices and private wealth management. Reports on trends in the sovereign wealth fund landscape have been popular, with SWFs such as ADIA...
and SAMA featuring prominently. Retirement attitudes and approaches to savings and retirement in the MENA region are also given coverage. Amongst the most popular articles in this section are those examining future trends in the Gulf, the investment outlook for Middle East markets and white papers on geopolitical issues in the MENA region.
The economic impact from Covid-19 hit oil-exporting countries hard as demand for oil fell and oil producers struggled to store surpluses. Global Sukuk and MENA Fixed Income’s Dino Kronfol and Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Salah Shamma are nonetheless optimistic about the prospects for the Middle East and North…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia embarked upon a significant economic reform programin 2016 (Vision 2030). It sought to diversify away from oil dependence, and high economic cyclicality, and to increase the size of the non-oil and private sectors. Financial market reforms and improved foreign investor access to Saudi markets are…
A year into the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the race between vaccine and virus entered a new phase in the Middle East and Central Asia region, and the path to recovery in 2021 is expected to be long and divergent. The outlook will vary significantly across countries, depending on the pandemic’s path, vaccine rollouts,…
Middle-East based DLA Piper partner, Paul Latto, joins a panel of experts including Tony Chacko Joseph, from UAE's Ministry of Finance; Khalid Saad, Board Member at CoinMENA; and Phil Reynolds, Board Director and Co-founder at Pyypl, to discuss the rapid growth in mobile payments and platforms the UAE's FinTech has…
COVID-19 has caused significant disruption across all real estate sectors in 2020 with owners and occupiers having to make necessary adjustments to business operations in response to the statutory restrictions on capacity and mobility. It remains unknown whether the pandemic will result in structural shifts for different use…
Despite Muslims comprising a quarter of the world’s population, almost none of the $100 trillion in professionally managed global assets are sharia compliant. Constraints such as ESG and SRI are common among pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. Typical constraints include alcohol, tobacco, weapons and…
After a mixed start to the fourth quarter, markets rallied in November and December. Equity markets were strong, particularly EMs. In fixed income, EM bonds were buoyant. After a lacklustre October, market sentiment benefitted from news of three vaccines that showed efficacy against COVID 19. Markets were also bolstered by…
January 2021 saw an increase in market volatility as many equity markets declined in the second half of the month, in part on pandemic-related concerns, with prolonged lockdowns in some developed-market countries fuelling worries of further economic weakness. Overall, equities declined as falls in developed markets…
Global equities enjoyed substantial gains in the last quarter of 2020, gaining 15.9%, as measured by the S&P Global BMI. Shariah-compliant benchmarks, including the S&P Global BMI Shariah and Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) World Index, slightly underperformed their conventional counterparts in Q4 2020 due to the…
Global equities continued to rise during Q1 2021, gaining 2.5%, as measured by the S&P Global BMI. Shariah-compliant benchmarks, including the S&P Global BMI Shariah and Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) World Index, underperformed their conventional counterparts in Q1, in part due to the strong performance of the…
In this webinar, the heads of ICMA (the International Capital Markets Association) and IDB (the Islamic Development Bank) sit down to discuss the world of Islamic finance.
