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In-house hedge funds look to have been a costly mistake for investment banks. Far better, it seems, is to take stakes in independent ones.
Euromoney August 2008
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As one Euromoney reader put it: “Macro has had more comebacks than Lazarus.” But is the strategy back to stay? – at least for three or so years, say managers.
Euromoney August 2008
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At a difficult time for the global asset management industry, the GCC countries are increasingly attractive markets. The region’s oil and gas fuelled wealth and increasing investment sophistication offer huge opportunities. Regional financial centres equipped with world-class regulation and facilities prov
Euromoney August 2008
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Investors say the Middle East is becoming an interesting new territory for hedge fund managers, as opportunities in the region increase.
Euromoney August 2008
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The current market is testing relations between managers and investors to the full, says Neil Wilson.
Euromoney August 2008
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While the build-up of a portfolio of diversified assets overseas is one key pillar of the government’s economic strategy, another is a commitment to a broad range of service-based industries domestically.
Euromoney August 2008
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Fund managers in the region are finding demand for a wide range of products, even though many investors still have very local interests at heart.
Euromoney August 2008
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Opinions are divided on quantifying the vastly important market for Shariah-compliant investment products, leaving institutions about how what resources to devote to them.
Euromoney August 2008
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The boom in the Qatari real estate market that has been an inevitable by-product of the spectacular growth of the economy in recent years and the surge in demand for residential as well as commercial property that has emerged as a result.
Euromoney August 2008
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Institutions accustomed to doing business with the Gulf from afar are now facing up to the need to have a presence in the region and deciding on what scale that presence should be.
Euromoney August 2008
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Oil prices at $100 a barrel and more are not the only thing generating excitement about the prospects for the GCC economies. Non-oil GDP is also increasing and there’s a young population with increasingly sophisticated investment requirements. Chris Wright reports.
Euromoney August 2008
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Qatar’s burgeoning economy has tripled in size over the past four years. A drive to diversify has achieved striking results in reducing dependence on oil and gas.
Euromoney August 2008
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Asset managers around the world recognize the opportunities that exist in the Gulf. What they still have to come to grips with is exactly how to exploit those opportunities most effectively.
Euromoney August 2008
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Euromoney August 2008
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Euromoney August 2008
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Markets have changed and so will the terms for Mexico’s next round of toll road financing.
Euromoney August 2008
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Euromoney August 2008
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Euromoney August 2008
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The precise responsibility of parties such as accountants and administrators in the event of hedge fund portfolio valuation discrepancies has been of growing concern among service providers.
Euromoney August 2008
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When the US SEC announced in July that it would impose a 30-day ban on illegal naked shorting in 19 stocks, some hedge funds were up in arms.
Euromoney August 2008
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The effects of the credit crunch have spread across all areas of finance, affecting even the world’s most liquid market: swaps in euros. People still want to do business, but banks need to reorder their balance sheets and regain confidence. And that could take a long time.
Euromoney August 2008
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The many new financial services licences issued by the Capital Markets Authority in Saudi Arabia have presented international businesses with a challenge: which model to use to make the best of this new opportunity?
Euromoney August 2008
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Dubai, Bahrain and Qatar are vying to be the Gulf’s financial hub and the battle is by no means over, with each centre adopting a very different approach.
Euromoney August 2008
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Barings, Castlepoint, AIG, Eclectica, to name but a few, have all set up agriculture funds in the past 12 months to cash in on expected commodity price increases. And if returns to date are anything to go by, more will be joining them.
Euromoney July 2008
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