Investing in Emerging Markets – Opportunities Created in the AIFC for Asset Management

Description

Leveraging its highly advantageous geographic position and proximity to Central Asian markets, the AIFC boasts a jurisdiction that has successfully demonstrated its extreme conduciveness to establishing and carrying on a successful asset management business.
The session will focus on the opportunities the AIFC’s comprehensive regulatory regime presents for global and local private equity, hedge fund, and real estate fund managers to add diversity to their portfolios. The speakers will also explore the challenges and opportunities of investing in frontier and emerging markets, in Central Asia, the EAEU, sectors and strategies for investing and the role financial hubs and regulators play in such markets.