09/18/2012
The fifth Deloitte Private Equity Confidence Survey has just been issued, gauging the views of the regional private equity community, across the Middle East.
09/18/2012
Nearly one-half (49 percent) of CFOs see sustainability as key driver of financial performance
09/16/2012
Wealth transfer to the next generation provides private banks with opportunities to “deepen relationships” with their clients and “fulfil the social promise as engines of economic prosperity”, says a top Standard Chartered executiv
09/13/2012
The heightened risk of Israel acting unilaterally against the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons has driven the oil price higher.
09/10/2012
"The Forum is going to be a major media event; bigger, better and more influential than last year, and simply unmissable for businesswomen in the Gulf and beyond."
09/09/2012
Al Gini, a professor of business ethics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, has a different perspective. He argues that business is not inherently bad, it just happens to offer many temptations – to counter this
09/05/2012
Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s institutional asset management business discuss the top trends affecting the fund management industry in 2012
09/03/2012
Real GDP expanded but ongoing political unrest continues to dampen the country’s growth.
09/02/2012
A total of 194 M&A deals worth $29.7 billion have been announced in the Middle East and North Africa so far this year, down 5.3 percent from 219 deals worth $31.4 billion in the same period last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
09/02/2012
The collective assets of the largest 50 banks in the region increased by 7.7% in the year to 30th June 2012, reaching US$1.28trn.
09/02/2012
Hay Group reports that employers in Bahrain are succeeding in retaining employees for the long term and providing equitable, competitive packages.
09/02/2012
Gulf Arab investors are also targeting options closer to home as they look for places to park their cash.
08/08/2012
Many global organisations can do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers, according to KPMG.
08/07/2012
In his book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin laid out his theory of evolution, in which he theorized that effective adaptation to their environments led certain organisms to survive and flourish, while those that did so less well fell by the wayside
08/07/2012
The index is not perfect and the relationship does not hold in reality because of a number of factors, but it is useful in highlighting big anomalies. Thus on a light-hearted look, Big Macs are now cheapest in Hong Kong and cost less in London than Zurich
07/18/2012
In spite of his doom and gloom about America and the world economy, when pressed Faber did recommend some China REITs.
07/16/2012
Avoiding Worldwide Recession by Addressing Fiscal Imbalances
07/15/2012
It’s easy to be cynical about mobility in wealth management.
07/10/2012
Researchers evaluated each organisation in terms of the steps it takes to fight corruption and the openness of its financial self-reporting.
07/09/2012
Despite the necessary expansion of central-bank balance sheets, Bank Sarasin does not see any threat of inflation as long as households and governments still need to deleverage.