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In next month’s issue of
Investment
INTERNATIONAL
Sovereign Wealth Funds Barclays Wealth analysis
As with other institutional investors, the global financial crisis An up-to-the moment assessment of the global economic
has presented sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) with serious situation from one of the world’s leading wealth management
challenges. They have experienced substantial declines in organisations. The current outlook is essentially negative,
both their investment valuations and in the value of the though there appears to be some grounds for limited
commodities and exports that support their growth. This optimism with regard to the latter part of 2009/early 2010.
downturn has prompted a reassessment not only of the
funds’ investment assumptions and approaches, but more
broadly of their priorities and objectives in a new financial Regus
world order.
An analysis of what is required to run a virtual office from
State Street Global Markets analyses the situation.
one of the world’s leading providers of such facilities.
Refinancing property holdings
Shariah finance
The strength of the euro on the foreign exchange market
The second in the magazine’s focus on the burgeoning world
makes the refinancing of property holdings particularly
of Shariah-compliant products, with a particular emphasis on
attractive in the euro zone in order to finance projects in
countries such as the United Kingdom or in the dollar zone,
the interests of the 150-million-strong Muslim community in
whilst keeping cash contributions to a minimum. The current
India.
environment is full of opportunities. Far from stripping the
property market of its substance, this new context gives
renewed interest, in fact, to a practice that is still widely
HSBC Bank International Survey
underused: the refinancing of property holdings.
The next instalment of the 2009 HSBC Bank International
Mary Fort, Head of International Development at French
survey. This section focuses on the financial circumstances of
Bank Patrimoine and Immobilier explains the process. 3,100 expats as they face the opportunities and challenges of
living away from home.
Follow-up on Brazil
Following this month’s supplement focusing on investment
opportunities in Brazil, there will be an update on the
growing investment opportunities this diverse and rapidly
expanding nation can provide.
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2009
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