In my year-end message, I will sum up the results attained in the passing year 2009, highlight practical lessons learnt and briefly review our ado list for the upcoming year 2010 to emphasize the general business development line. The practical sense behind this message is to stress global opportunities, which definitely will show up in [...]
In the part one of the discussion of the hybrid capital I considered quasi-fixed-income instruments as the investment option, explained their speculative nature and left an open question about who is supposed to invest in the mezzanine capital. I rationalized that, due to the very specific nature of the mezzanine capital, investments in the appropriate [...]
This time I will discuss the hybrid banking capital, who should invest in the hybrid capital and what the investor have to understand about the hybrid capital, before committing investments. First of all, let’s remember that generally we have three investment options, though one of them is not the investment in its general mean. The [...]
This time I will talk about Dubai’s debt case, its development strategy and what lessons we have to learn about sovereign earning power and economy layers to commit smart investments. I will start from the economic development part of the Dubai Strategic Plan (2015), available here, and then will proceed with other aforementioned topics to come [...]