03.01.2013 - Wealthy Gulf investors warm to Africa
In November Abu Dhabi-based asset manager Invest AD launched a fixed income fund that will focus on Africa as well as the Middle East. Along with Morocco’s Attijariwafabank, it also said it would launch a fund to invest in African companies listed on stock markets. Qatar’s Hassad Food, an arm of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, agreed in 2009 on a $1-billion farmland development joint venture with the government of Sudan...............................................Full Article: Source
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