Global smart cities, including Riyadh, can unlock billions of dollars in economic value by treating their technology initiatives as a serious, high-performing investment class, rather than an experimental innovation spend, says a new report from JLL.
Global chip giant Nvidia is teaming up with Wall Street's big guns including Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs to mobilise over $500 billion for AI infrastructure, as part of its ambitious plan to turn AI chips into a new asset class that investors can fund much like real estate or other critical infrastructure.
Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest global asset managers, said investors should expect a prolonged period of more divergent investment outcomes across markets, with increasingly uneven performance across asset classes and strategies, as global markets adapt to structural shifts in interest rates, capital allocation and technology adoption.
Leading real estate expert Cavendish Maxwell has appointed David McCormack as the new director of capital markets. An industry veteran with nearly 25 years of real estate experience, including 18 in UAE, McCormack brings extensive expertise in investment transactions, asset repositioning and strategic real estate advisory.
Binghatti Capital Limited, an investment management firm in Dubai, has announced that one of its key funds has achieved a net internal rate of return (IRR) of 194% and a net multiple on invested capital (MOIC) of 2.3x for external limited partners.
