In the GCC, private equity is still at a nascent stage, but had witnessed significant growth between 2002 and 2008. But the onset of global financial crisis stalled growth of the industry. Fundraising...
Read More
Saudi stock market is dominated by the top 10 brokerage firms contributing approximately 90% of the value traded. Some of the players who have ranked atop consistently in the Saudi Arabian market in t...
Read More
GCC markets are yet to recover following their retreat amid weaker oil prices. Saudi Arabia stocks were affected the most on concerns of deteriorating fiscal position and sustainability of finances. S...
Read More
MENA markets liquidity continued its momentum in November, with volume increasing by 20% and value traded by 7.7%, post the lulled market activity in the last quarter. With the exception of Oman...
Read More
The present scenarioCompared to all other stock exchanges in the GCC the number of large- and mid- cap stocks, as per the above definition, is much lower in Kuwait, than in peer countries, whereas the...
Read More
CORPORATE GOVERNANCEBy M R Raghu Companies that have effective corporate governance mechanisms can instill a sense of accountability and transparency in organizational leaders. In an age of dynamic...
Read More
During the past decade, Saudi Arabia has witnessed rapid economic development, attributable to elevated oil production and prices, vigorous private sector activity and strong government spending on in...
Read More
Raghu pointed out that the recent fall in oil prices by over 61 percent since June, 2014 due to a host of factors such as shale oil revolution in US, OPEC decision to retain their output levels amid s...
Read More
Emaar properties PJSC was established in 1997 and has been listed as a Joint stock company on the Dubai Financial market. Emaar has helped in creating large scale master-planned communities as w...
Read More
According to Marmore’s UAE Asset Management report, the UAE asset management industry manages USD 1,264.8mn in assets in about 31 funds as of 21st July, 2015. In terms of products, equity ...
Read More
The main goal of an investor or a money manager is to create wealth – be it through capital appreciation strategy, dividend strategy or a capital preservation strategy. Unfortunately over the last 1...
Read More
SABIC was established in 1976 by Royal decree, and is currently ranked amongst the world’s largest petrochemicals manufacturer. According to Marmore’s company report on SABIC, the petrochemical se...
Read More
According to Marmore’s recently released Monthly Market Review, MENA markets ended mostly in red during the month of October 2015. Abu Dhabi (-4.0%) suffered the most, followed by Saudi Arabia (-3.8...
Read More
Last year we had published a report (Disruptive Technology: Bitcoins) on the emerging technology of bitcoins. At the time of writing that report, the value of one bitcoin had reached an all-time high ...
Read More
Qatar banking sector overall accounts for 126% of the country’s nominal GDP in 2014 and banks’ credit to GDP stood at 87%. According to Marmore’s report on Qatar banking, the post-crisis growth ...
Read More
