SEDCO: Investment Strategy
Investment strategy of SEDCO.
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Investment strategy of SEDCO.
Anees Ahmed Moumina, CEO of SEDCO Holding talks about foreign direct investments and doing business in Saudi Arabia.
The challenge at FDI, is how to bring foreign direct investments into a country with a troubled neighborhood. But as one of the emerging market powers, the public equity is going to be opened in Saudi Arabia in the middle of this year.
Itqan Capital is a Sharia Compliant company focusing on four main lines of business, Asset Management, Principal Investment, Investment Banking and Custodial Services.
“The options are either through funds or through swaps. Foreigners would prefer direct ownership of securities and this has been an ongoing debate for quite some time,” explains Dr. Boutros Klink, CEO of Standard Chartered.
“One of the government’s initiatives that SATCO is participating in is that SATCO has won a significant contract by the Ministry of Housing to build 778 villas in the northern region of Taima. It is a large project worth over 400 million Saudi riyals. SATCO so far has been one of the star contractors in terms of performance and delivery for such projects,” says Dr. Ahmed Sindi, General Manager of SATCO.
With the market regulator taking steps to give foreign institutions access to the Tadawul market in Riyadh, banks, fund managers and brokers in the region expect a boon and a boom for Saudi shares and new listings to come.
Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has emerged as one of the best places to do business in the Middle East. In its ranking “Ease of Doing Business” Index 2011, the World Bank ranked 11th out of 183 countries. Saudi Arabia has made significant progress by moving up to 11th place from the 67th place in the global ranking it occupied in 2005.
Abdullah Saud Al-Rashoud, CEO of Blominvest
I think the capital markets started very early in Saudi, maybe in the 60’s or even earlier than that. It was very simple, very preliminary, there were no complications at all, and there were no rules or regulations.
Abdul Rahman Al-Zamil, Chairman of Zamil Group
Without any hesitation I can tell you that doing business in Saudi Arabia is the easiest of all of these countries. Easy business doesn’t mean only government procedures.