Qatar: 2020 Budget Expenditures To Thrust Real Estate Market Growth
The recently promulgated general annual budget of 2020 has reflected the highest budgeted expenditure in the past five fiscal years, which in turn thrusts the real estate growth; an important contributor to the economic growth.
Qatar Aims To Reach $45B In U.S. Investments
Qatar Investment Authority aims to raise investments in the United States to $45 billion in the next two years as it rebalances its portfolio of assets away from Europe, its chief executive said.
Qatar Calls For Increased Investment In Oil, Gas Markets
Qatar's energy minister called for oil-producing countries to boost investment in the oil and gas sector given a recovery in the price of oil, but said he did not back setting any specific targets for such investment.
Why Qatar Plans To Invest Billions In Germany
Qatar plans to invest billions of dollars more in Germany and will broaden its focus to the country's medium-sized companies, business newspaper Handelsblatt said in a report.
‘Business As Usual’ At Qatar’s Sovereign Fund, As Regional Crisis Reaches Day 100
The head of the Qatar Investment Authority said that the lingering Gulf political crisis was having little impact on the US$300 billion sovereign wealth fund of the gas-rich nation.
Atkins Leading Designs on Doha Metro in Qatar
WS ATKINS [LON:ATK], the largest engineering group in the UK, has started its new financial year by announcing that it will be the lead designer on the Doha metro in Qatar....
RDIF launches an initiative to set up a joint fund to implement BRICS infrastructure projects
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), has announced an initiative to form a joint fund to invest in the equity capital of BRICS infrastructure projects while he attends the BRICS summit in Fortaleza. Representatives of leading financial institutions, BRICS sovereign wealth funds and RDIF’s international partners have given their complete support to the initiative. Should the negotiations be successful, the joint fund will become operational by the next BRICS summit which is scheduled to take place in Ufa (Russia) in 2015.
Qatar’s Retail Real Estate to be a "Centre of Investment"
Despite the future supply of competing malls under construction, currently operating malls hold their identity on the sectors with appreciating rents and higher occupancies, the Aredc report says....
At the Ascot, Qatar SWF stable is a force to be reckoned with
With nearly unlimited resources and a quickly expanding operation, the Al Shaqab Stable of Sheikh Joaan al-Thani, the brother of the emir of Qatar, and his younger cousin, Sheikh Fahad al-Thani, who races as Qatar Racing or Pearl Bloodstock, have turned European racing on its head in less than three years, paying top dollar for yearlings as well as the best horses in training.
Qatar fund commits $2 bln investment to Russia
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund the Qatar Investment Authority is allocating $2 billion to Russia via joint investments with state-backed private equity fund the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of Russia's fund said on Friday.