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By Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: Regional capital markets within the Middle East have developed in tandem with an increase in wealth, and the reinvestment of revenues into the MENA region has helped spark an economic boom at a time when the US and Europe are experiencing economic contractions. However, MENA assets are also looking to other areas of the globe in which to diversify their investments.

Dubai-based Capintro Partners is an alternative investment placement specialist which matches investors in the Middle East region with alternative asset managers in the hedge fund, private equity and real estate spaces. The firm is in the process of surveying MENA based institutional investors as to allocations by geography, strategy, asset classes, etc and will release the results of this survey in the first quarter of 2009. In advance of this information Opalesque had a chance to speak with Capintro Partners Founder Mahmoud Al Khawaja about the nuances of MENA investor relations and the strategies his MENA based clients are looking for when they look to invest outside of the region.

Investing in the MENA region To put the growth of the MENA region amidst the global credit crisis in perspective Al Khawaja sites Zawya, a business and finance information portal servicing the MENA region which reports MENA region IPOs in the first half of 2008 totaled $9.335 bln (a 76% year over year increase). “......................

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