The biggest issue hindering the growth of the Gulf’s debt capital markets is the lack of a thriving local institutional investor community, says the head of the region’s leading fixed-income trade body.
Michael Grifferty, president of the Gulf Bonds and Sukuk Association (GBSA), says that the size of the “institutional buy side could be immense” but is hampered by structural problems.
Funds under management in the Gulf constitute only about 1% of the region’s GDP, way below the levels in advanced economies.
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