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Desert Diary Month 4

by Edward Atkinson | May 29, 2018 | Investor's Notebook

If your perception of business in the Middle East is one of men in sunglasses discussing arms deals and oil trades, then you’d be wrong. Well, that’s not to say this doesn’t go on, but a visit to Dubai, and in particular DIFC, the vibrant Dubai International Financial...

GII’s Amazon logistics deal is strategic winner for Dubai!

by Matein Khalid | Jan 8, 2018 | The Macro View

Dubai-based Gulf Islamic Investments (GII) acquired a one million square foot Amazon logistics centre in Dortmund, Germany for $144 million. This deal is a testament to the boutique global merchant bank created in Dubai by GII’s co-founder/CEO Pankaj Gupta, who I am...

Dubai property market trends in 2018

by Matein Khalid | Jan 2, 2018 | The Macro View

The rise in Brent crude to $60 a barrel and the trade volume ballast generated by the world’s first post Lehman synchronised economic recovery is hugely positive for UAE economic growth in 2018. After all, the UAE is unique because Abu Dhabi’s 100 billion barrels of...

Why the Emaar development IPO will make money for investors

by Matein Khalid | Oct 30, 2017 | The Macro View

Emaar Properties will sell 20% of its UAE development portfolio in an initial public offering in November. This is the first IPO in the UAE capital markets in the last three years and follows bellwether offerings such as Emaar Malls and Emaar Misr. Emaar’s Dubai...

Can UAE emerge as an aircraft leasing hub?

by Matein Khalid | Jun 5, 2017 | The Macro View

I was stunned to read a Boeing report that forecasts that the global passenger jet fleet will more than double to 45,250 by 2035. Given that almost 20,000 of the world’s in-service aircraft will be retired or converted to freighters in the next decade, Boeing...