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Interview with Abdul Aziz Al-Mazooq. Muthanna Investment Company business model is based on a pure Islamic investment banking model focusing on Islamic investment banking activities including transaction advisory services, private equity transactions, real estate investments, and asset management activities like brokerage, equity research, and management of discretionary accounts. It is a basic model Islamic investment banking model, the only thing that keeps Muthanna Investment Company going is focusing on several dimensions at once.

Kuwait Investment Partner

March 24, 2010

Interview with Mazen Madooh, General Manager of National Offset Company. National Offset Company is looking for serious investors that will be forthcoming with ideas or concept papers to establish successful offset ventures benefiting the contracted government body (like Ministry of Defence or Ministry or Electricity & Water), which we classify as direct offset, or partner with Kuwait Investment Partner be it Kuwait private sector partner or civil entities in an indirect offset project. Both must ultimately achieve the Kuwait offset Program Goals, stated earlier (transfer of technology, job creation, and training opportunities for Kuwaitis).

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Kuwait Oil Company, Leader in Kuwait Oil and Gas

March 24, 2010

Interview Sami Al-Rushaid. The Kuwait Oil and Gas 2030 strategy for Kuwait Oil Company calls for four million barrels a day capacity for production that is to be sustained between 2020-2030. For non-associated gas Kuwait Oil Copmany plans to produce one billion standard cubic feet per day by 2015. The additional exploration activities in Kuwait oil fields will hopefully allow Kuwait Oil Company to produce another 1.5 billion cubic feet per day to total 2.5 billion standard cubic feet per day by 2030. This is the vision for Kuwait oil and gas and for Kuwait Oil Company.

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KAMCO Investment Strategy

March 22, 2010

KAMCO is one of the top 5 investment and asset management companies in Kuwait. CEO of KAMCO, Sadoun A. Ali, talks about KAMCO’s investment strategy and challenges. KAMCO is also a part of KIPCO – one of the largest diversified companies in Kuwait. (Their subsidiaries include companies such as Gulf Insurance, for example.)

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KFH Capital Investment Leading Islamic Investment Company in Kuwait

March 19, 2010

KFH Capital Investment formally Muthanna Investment Company K.S.C.C. (“MIC”) started business in mid 2004 as an investment company carrying on business in accordance with the Noble Sharia. The Company’s roots extend ack to 1977 when its Parent, Kuwait Finance House “KFH”, was the first Islamic finance institution in Kuwait..

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Kuwait National Petroleum Services Company (NAPESCO), Kuwait Oil

March 19, 2010

Interview with Khalid Hamdan Al-Saif. For Kuwait to make decisions like other nations who have decided to diversify their income away from oil, Kuwait will need concrete steps in order to preserve this way of life for our children and their children. The role of Kuwait oil in Kuwait economy is very strong and, I personally feel more should be done in Kuwait to diversify the income away from oil in order to secure better future for Kuwait.

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Kuwait Airways, Leading Airways in Kuwait

March 16, 2010

Interview with Hamad Abdullatif Al Falah. Kuwait Airways is a diamond, and whoever buys with Kuwait Airways will be a winner. We have the best pilots, engineers, technicians, and training center that serves many Arab countries. Kuwait Airways is ahead of our competitors with regard to all of these aspects. Kuwait Airways is at the end now because our aircraft are older and smaller in number. If we have a bigger number of aircraft we can offer more destinations and with newer aircraft we will be more competitive and we can capture more of the market.

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Kuwait Fund, Kuwait Foreign Aid

March 15, 2010

Interview with Abdulwahab Al Bader. The Kuwait Fund is hoping to present to our board our latest strategies for 2010 and Kuwait Fund is hoping to continue with its current trends and possibly increase Kuwait Fund’s lending opportunities. Kuwait Fund has several recommendations to make and the Kuwait Fund would like to continue working with other Arab countries, Africa, and Asia while trying to strengthen our relations with them. Additionally, I would like to see us continue with social and health related projects.

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Kuwait Investments, Global Securities House and Gatehouse Bank

March 15, 2010

Interview with Fahed Faisal Boodai, Gatehouse Bank. When we at Kuwait Global Securities House say cherry picking we look at this from two points. One, from the investor’s standpoint what does the investor and what are the clients needs in this market? For example, In 2002-2003 Kuwait Global Securities House invested heavily in GCC and Kuwait real estate but slowed down in 2004 – that is where the cherry picking comes in and where opportunities began to be handpicked. Most importantly real estate and investment are all about timing. In 2006-2007, Global Securities House started exiting some of these investments and I think that that was very smart because given the economic downturn we recently witnessed Global Securities House would have really been hurt.

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Kuwait Economy, Economic growth in Kuwait

March 15, 2010

Interview Bader Al Humaidhi. Kuwait’s government and parliament in 2008 issued a law that was organized by the Central Bank of Kuwait to boost economic growth in Kuwait. It had three objectives: to extend financial assistance through banks to financial institutions who were effected by the crisis, to help economic growth in Kuwait.