Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

Abu Dhabi Investment Council IM is an active manager which aims to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns while preserving capital. They invest globally with a particular emphasis on the MENA Region.The firm invests in private equity, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, public equity, and fixed-income markets. For private equity investments, they make direct, secondary, and fund of fund investments in private markets and in listed and unlisted companies. They seek to invest across venture capital, growth equity, buyout, and distressed to debt/credit opportunities and may co-invest. Their infrastructure investments focus on large-scale public systems including transportation, communications, utilities and power and social infrastructures (schools and hospitals). For real estate, they invest in retail, office, industrial, residential, hotels, and property related securities, through fund holdings, joint ventures, and listed securities.For public equity investments, Abu Dhabi Investment Council IM seeks to invest in large- and small-cap companies. They diversify fixed-income investments across sovereign, global inflation linked, credit and emerging debt securities. Their alternative investments include funds investing across relative value strategies, hedged equity strategies, macro strategies, event-driven strategies and systematic commodities trading.

First Abu Dhabi IM is an active, long-term manager which performs in-house research to invest in a range of funds and provide discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services. Through their fixed-income fund, they aim to capture short-term trading opportunities (typically held for a period of 6 months) arising primarily in UAE equities, while reducing directional downward risk in the underlying markets.

Invest AD invests in local, regional and global equity and fixed-income securities. Their equity investment approach is bottom-up and based on fundamental analysis performed in-house, complemented by direct contacts with companies. Their international strategy favors indirect investments through third-party funds, in particular for their multi-strategy hedge fund.