Finance

  It is telling that the most exciting event in private equitythis year was the Celebration of Entrepreneurship event in Dubai — also knownas Wamda, the equivalent of the West’s …

Hopefully your wealth management contracts and agreements are not the places where you skip the fine print, because if so, you could be getting hosed. Between initial charges, annual charges, …

Call it the gold rush or the gold bug, but one of the world’s oldest investments is making a name for itself as a safe haven in the financial storm. …

Here’s a story you may recognize. Ten years ago, two young Jordanian entrepreneurs founded an internet services company to foster an online community through which Arabic speakers could access and …

Stefan Keitel is managing director and global chief investment officer at Credit Suisse. He recently sat down with Executive to discuss how to best cash in on today’s investment trends, …

  When Beirut’s wealth managers talk about the financial crisis, their language is decidedly emotional. They speak of the “support” they gave their clients as they watched their portfolios crumble. …

More than three years after the start of the financial crisis and two years after the default of Lehman Brothers, the world economy is still struggling to climb back from …

Buildings go up and banks earn profits; it’s a simple fact of life in any reasonably functioning economy. Both the banking and the real estate industries would most probably prefer …

Running the gauntlet that is Gulf finances these days, Emirati bank balance sheets are being battered; double-teamed by deteriorating asset quality and non-performing loans. Fortunately for them, however, the fight …