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Gift City UAE

Instability in India’s Gift City could push investors to UAE

India’s Gift City – a special economic zone located in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat home state – has attracted commitments from backers including sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf. However a halt in approvals to set up family offices has put the brakes on its ambitions to become a global financial hub after regulators […]

This month, Saudi Electricity reported a 17 percent year-on-year rise in net profits to SAR5.2 billion

Saudi Electricity raises $4bn from 15 banks

Saudi Electricity Company, 75 percent-owned by the sovereign Public Investment Fund, has obtained SAR15 billion ($4 billion) in funding from 15 regional and global banks. The three-year credit facility will be used for general corporate purposes. The facility is not backed by any guarantees, the company said in a statement to the Saudi stock exchange […]

Executive, Person, Adult

Recruitment portals try to ease logjam in Saudi labour market

Saudi Arabia presents a golden opportunity for recruitment platforms that seek to match multitudes of job seekers with a plethora of employers looking to hire, labour market specialists say.   There are around 168 Public Investment Fund companies working on the $1.25 trillion Vision 2030 economic diversification programme, as well as foreign companies setting up offices […]

A concept image of the Thuwal island resort. New hotels there are due to open in weeks

Red Sea Global to open Thuwal island resort in weeks

Saudi giga-project Red Sea Global will open hotels at a second site within weeks and more at a third location will open next year, the luxury resort developer said this week.  The company, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will open a private island called Thuwal just north of Jeddah, followed by […]

ADIA Sanofi

ADIA ‘in talks to join Sanofi bid consortium’

Abu Dhabi’s trillion-dollar investment fund is in talks to join a consortium to buy the French drugmaker Sanofi’s consumer health division, according to a report by Bloomberg. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC have both been contacted by the French buyout firm PAI Partners with a view to joining […]

The Rig infrastructure Saudi giga-projects

Saudi infrastructure provider signs on for The Rig giga-project

Saudi adventure tourism project The Rig has contracted a local company to develop the infrastructure for one of the kingdom’s more outlandish giga-projects.  The Public Investment Fund (PIF) company said International Maritime Industries (IMI) had formally agreed to provide maritime logistics and infrastructure for the project, which has an ambitious target date of 2027.  The […]

PIF is investing in growing sectors in the Saudi economy with IT making up 9.4% of its domestic investments

Saudi Arabia’s PIF is focused on the home advantage

The value of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund’s domestic assets under management have doubled year on year in further evidence of a strategy to focus investments in the kingdom. The AuM, referred to in the fund’s annual report as “Saudi sector development (SSD)” increased from 21 percent to 33 percent last year. The investments are […]

Saudi tankers deal Bahri

Saudi shipping company signs $1bn tankers deal

National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has announced a SAR3.75 billion ($1 billion) deal to buy nine tankers from Greek company Capital Maritime and Trading Corporation. The very large crude carriers (VLCCs) will be used by Bahri to deliver crude cargoes for its customers. VLCCs are a crucial part of the global maritime logistics […]