Time for an autumn rethink on the investment outlook
In August the number of ArabianMoney.Net readers surged by 76 per cent over the previous month, and we recieved a record number of new subscriptions to our newsletter.
The next issue is published on Friday…
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Defaults undermine new Islamic bond issues and Islamic finance
Investors who believed Islamic bonds would somehow be better protected against adversity have had their confidence undermined by four defaults that have returned issuance to the 2005 level of $2.5 billion so far this year.…
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US contrarian investors looking hard at Arabia
The ArabianMoney mission to Vancouver to address the Agora Financial Investment Symposium proved not to be wasted time and effort after all with the famous US contrarians showing a big interest in investing in the…
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Golden opportunity for $1 trillion Islamic banking industry
Now that the entire Western banking system has been exposed as a massive scam that has overcompensated bankers and defrauded shareholders, the $1 trillion Islamic banking industry ought to be coming into its own as…
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Islamic finance to double to $2 trillion industry within five years
If anybody wonders why governments and international banks are paying more and more attention to Islamic banking then the prediction that this will turn from a $1 trillion industry today to $2 trillion within five…
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Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed appointed ADIA boss
Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, chief of the court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi has been named new managing director the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority after the recent tragic death of his…
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$5m entry level for first-ever Islamic hedge fund
Banks across the Gulf States are beginning to warm to the first-ever Islamic hedge fund of funds being marketed by Dubai Shariah Asset Management but there is a fairly high initial entry minimum investment of…
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Free trial offer as ArabianMoney launches investment newsletter
Readers of ArabianMoney today will perhaps be surprised by the new look and feel of this website that has now left its blog platform behind and migrated to a fully functional standard website.
This coincides…
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Abu Dhabi and Dubai bourse merger would boost UAE recovery
It has long been an anomaly that a relatively small country like the UAE has three stock markets – the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, Dubai Financial Market and Nasdaq Dubai – and the logic for…
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Abu Dhabi's Mubadala fund assets jump 75% to $24bn
The investment community has an understandable fascination with the usually secretive world of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds. But although these private, non-listed funds are hardly likely to throw open their books to public scrutiny,…
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