SEPTEMBER 2014
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
ECONOMICS & POLICY
Less blue, more gold
Unlicensed water distributors are profiteering from a gap of unknown size
Matt Nash
A strategy on hold
Delays are hampering efforts to reduce investment risk in Lebanon’s offshore
Matt Nash
SPECIAL REPORT: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Money magnets
Lebanon’s wealth management business is small, but private banks want to change that
Livia Murray
Feeling our presence
Roula Habis on managing wealth in the Middle East
Livia Murray and Thomas Schellen
Don’t ask for too much
Banque Libano-Française aims to compete with quality service, not high returns
Thomas Schellen
BUSINESS
Taking the streets of Beirut
Taxi booking apps Uber and Careem roll out in Lebanon’s capital
Livia Murray
Bringing Damascus to Beirut
More Syrian-themed restaurants are opening their doors in Lebanon
Nabila Rahhal
Raising capital, the human kind
Lebanon’s EMBA programs are growing, but no one knows what value they add
Thomas Schellen
Seeing is believing
The most memorable content is communicated visually
Line Tabet and Zeina Loutfi and Ramsay Najjar
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
SOCIETY
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
LAST WORD
