The member states of the GCC – Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – are investing heavily into healthcare ventures to support the increasingly varied healthcare needs of their rapidly growing populations. In the…
Following Saudi Arabia’s recent 3.5 billion USD investment in Uber Technologies Inc., Middle Eastern investors are looking for viable tech investment opportunities abroad to capitalise on the rapid rise of tech startups like Uber and Lyft. Although Middle Eastern economies…
As Middle Eastern economies continue to diversify away from oil in the wake of the oil price crash, investors in the region are also ramping up their investments into alternative energy and cleantech. HSBC Holdings Plc. estimates that 80 trillion…
In a sign that China’s dedication to boosting its domestic healthcare industry remains as strong as ever, three Chinese investment firms have recently announced a 150 million USD investment in CStone Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company that is developing…
There is a healthcare revolution taking place in the Middle East, with investors in the region increasingly pursuing opportunities in pharmaceuticals, medtech, home healthcare services and a variety of other healthcare subsectors. This is most evident in terms of regional…
Chinese foreign investment has grown rapidly in the past few years, reaching 123.12 billion USD in 2015. In the first four months of 2016, an additional 110 billion USD of Chinese capital found its way overseas. Chinese investors looking to…
Chinese companies have been investing heavily in the Indian tech sector – particularly startups in the web and mobile spheres. Earlier this year, Chinese online travel company Ctrip joined the trend with a 180 million USD investment in the Indian…
Interest from Chinese investors in the European tech sector has accelerated over the past year, according to analysts and commentators including Mattias Ljungman, a partner at venture capital firm Atomico. “There’s an increasing appetite by the Chinese to look at…
Linda Wong, CEO of China based Yihai Group, recently announced a 113 million USD initial investment in a European healthcare project that will provide both European and Chinese medicine and healthcare. The announcement was part of President Xi Jinping’s visit…
Cyber security is not a field where trends happen easily, but the few that do appear tend to spread at wildfire speed. The newest innovation sweeping the regional cyber security sphere is “threat hunting”. Cyber security has graduated from threat…
US investors are caught between a rock and a hard place. After years of stop-start recovery in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, high net worth individuals in the US are faced with an unfamiliar economic reality –…
According to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by IP Global, property is the most popular asset class for investors in the UAE. 42 percent of residents invest in property – significantly higher than the percentage that invest in stocks, shares…
The world’s wealthy have not lost their appetite for real estate investment prospects, according to two recent studies: one by Savills and Weatherill Consulting, and another by Sotheby’s International Realty and Wealth-X. It’s easy to see why real estate continues…
Despite a dip in the number of foreign investors buying property in the UK, Middle Eastern investors remain active in the country. A recent YouGov survey found that the UK is the second most popular destination for property investors based…
According to some reports, London may be losing its haven status among foreign property investors, as slumping commodity prices and turmoil in the emerging markets decrease the demand for property. But the indicators for this reported loss of haven status…