Kuwait Investment - MarcoPolis

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.

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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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 Investment, Global Investment House

February 10, 2010

Mrs. Maha Al Ghunaim, Chairperson and Managing Director of Global Investment House. Our main challenge is to reposition the Global Investment House brand. The weak macroeconomic environment impacted Global Investment House operations negatively and in 2008 Global Investment House recorded our first loss in the company’s history. We are now working to deleverage the company, while maintaining our clients’ trust. Global Investment House has revised its strategy to focus on our asset management, investment banking and brokerage activities and enhance our products and services.