The July edition focuses on Dubai's rise to become one of the hottest spots for alternative managers, featuring the DIFC, Simmons & Simmons, Walkers Global and AIMA.
As always, we look at the past month's performances and some of the stories to have crossed our desks, from record (as well as disappointing) private equity fundraisings, Carlyle's new focus, Silver Lake going big game hunting, problems over at Odey, Andurand's struggles, the return of the star manager, founder rifts at Two Sigma, 33rd time lucky in crypto, recent FCA amendments, SEC hitting a financial adviser for excess fees, plus much more.
Arif Amiri, CEO, DIFC, writes about the merits of Dubai and the DIFC ecosystem as "hedge funds look to expand their horizons."
Simmons & Simmons' Muneer Khan looks at how the DIFC has grown to become the largest hedge fund hub in the region. The "UAE and especially Dubai [are] now at the top of the list for some of the world's largest alternative asset managers and their talent.
Walkers Global picks-up the attractions of the region and the "concentrated and strategic efforts of the DIFC" that has seen high-profile managers set up in the DIFC; as well as the "pairing" of offshore funds with DFSA-regulated managers to have a "best of both worlds" approach.
We round off with AIMA's Tom Kehoe on the UAE's charm offensive and attraction to managers, which has shown "clean intent to have the very best businesses globally move to the UAE region."
Once more, we are delighted to have The Money Maze on board, which is a collaboration between Brodie Consulting Group, Capricorn Fund Managers and RQC Group.