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Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025

Global Finance

Supported by a large team of equity specialists, Dukhan’s portfolio-management services are extensive and include equity markets, sukuk, mutual funds, and capital-protected products. Sidra focuses on global income-generating real estate, private finance, and private equity. The company has made several recent deals.

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African Banking Roundtable: New Focus On Capital Markets

Global Finance

We have a demographic dividend thats very attractive; everybody talks about the future where one in four people in the world will be African. GF: Ethiopia is launching an equity market. One of the advantages of the South African exchange is it combines equity and debt instruments. Felipe: In November.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

For more established private businesses, some of which need capital to grow and some of which have owners who want to cash out, the capital has come from private equity investors.

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Brian DeChesare

Allocations: If youre young, you should invest mostly in equities, but I believe gold and silver are often good replacements for fixed income in the traditional 80 / 20 or 60 / 40 portfolios. At the very least, youll keep earning and re-investing dividends, which adds a small percentage each year.

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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Musings on Markets

The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business , an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay out what they have available to shareholders. In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past.

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Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy!

Musings on Markets

Not surprisingly, the markets opened down on Thursday and spent the next two days in that mode, with US equity indices declining almost 10% by close of trading on Friday. US equities had the biggest decline in dollar value terms, losing $5.3

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

In 2022, we needed that reminder more than ever before, especially after markets came roaring back from the COVID drop in 2020 and 2021. We invest in equities expecting to earn more than we can make on risk free or guaranteed investments, but the risk in equities is that actual returns can deviate from expectations.