Abraaj Capital: a broad regional approach
THE STOCK MARKET crash in the Gulf earlier this year provided a clear illustration of the adage that one mans meat is another mans poison. When the stock market bubbles of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states finally burst in May, sending prices diving more than 40%, not everyone was complaining.
The repricing that has taken place has woken investors up to the risks inherent in riding the equity market wave far more convincingly then the financial advisers mere words had been doing earlier. While some investors were wringing their hands, private equity fund managers were more sanguine.
Abe Saad, managing director of Shuaa Partners, the Dubai-based private equity arm of regional investment bank Shuaa Capital, says that he has seen a change of attitude from investors since raising his companys first fund. The firm closed a first $200...
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