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Haitham works for National Bank of Fujairah, where he leads the investment solutions team, which sources and manages investment solutions across multi-asset strategies and various...

Haitham works for National Bank of Fujairah, where he leads the investment solutions team, which sources and manages investment solutions across multi-asset strategies and various asset classes for corporate, private, and retail clients. Haitham is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Emirates CFA Society.

Ahsan is a highly qualified financial markets professional with over 23 years of experience in the areas of investment banking, capital markets and risk management....

Ahsan is a highly qualified financial markets professional with over 23 years of experience in the areas of investment banking, capital markets and risk management. He is based in Dubai, working for Mashreqbank PSC since December 2004 and is currently heading the Rates, Fixed Income & Structured Solutions team in the Treasury & Capital Markets Division. His key areas of responsibility include Interest Rates and Credit trading & structuring, economic and financial markets research, development of vanilla and exotic asset and liability solutions, rates and equities derivatives trading, and sales and distribution of new debt issues. He has been associated with Mashreq for over 18 years and during that time also carried out the roles of fixed income portfolio manager and head of international treasury management and sales. Prior to joining Mashreq, Ahsan worked in the area of M&A advisory and Corporate Finance for 5 years for UBS Pakistan and was involved in a wide range of complex and high-profile public and private advisory and fund-raising transactions. Ahsan’s areas of expertise include credit analysis & trading, interest rate derivatives structuring & trading, and structured solutions. He has keen interest in global and regional macro-economic developments and closely monitor key industrial and financial trends emerging in the GCC in general and the UAE in particular. He is regularly advising clients on investment and risk management strategies based on global macro developments especially related to monetary policies. He has represented Mashreqbank at various regional and international seminars covering the economic and capital markets outlook. Ahsan has achieved professional qualifications such as the CFA Charter awarded by the CFA Institute in 2003 and the FRM Charter awarded by the Global Association of Risk Professionals in 2007. He completed his Masters in Risk Management from Stern School of Business at the New York University in 2018.

Alisher has over 25 years of international experience in advisory, investment banking, venture capital, private equity and investment management. He worked in over 25 countries...

Alisher has over 25 years of international experience in advisory, investment banking, venture capital, private equity and investment management. He worked in over 25 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Alisher founded A100 Financial as a family office, advisory and investment management firm focused on over 100 emerging and frontier markets. Throughout his career, he has advised governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporates on foreign direct investments as well as invested and co-invested along banks, hedge funds, venture capital and private equity groups across various asset classes globally. Alisher received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Sharif Eid is a portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Mr. Eid is responsible for co-managing FTSF Franklin Sukuk...

Sharif Eid is a portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Mr. Eid is responsible for co-managing FTSF Franklin Sukuk Fund, FTIF GCC Bond Fund, MENA Fixed Income and Global Sukuk mandates and institutional accounts, as well as trading within the team. Mr. Eid has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry starting at TD Securities in Toronto. Mr. Eid joined Franklin Templeton in 2009 as a research analyst where he helped develop the group's fundamental research process and production before becoming a portfolio manager in 2011.Mr. Eid holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in industrial engineering and a Master of Mathematical Finance from University of Toronto.

Abdul Kadir Hussain has 24 years investment experience in the Emerging Market Space. Prior to joining Arqaam he was CEO of Mashreq Capital, Mashreqbank’s Asset...

Abdul Kadir Hussain has 24 years investment experience in the Emerging Market Space. Prior to joining Arqaam he was CEO of Mashreq Capital, Mashreqbank’s Asset Management business. He has a 10 year public track record managing conventional Fixed Income credit based funds and a 6 year public track record managing Shariah compliant fixed income credit funds. In addition to the public funds Mr. Hussain has run a conventional credit based total return proprietary strategy for Mashreq bank. He has managed global credit, distressed and special situation investments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East for the last 24 years. Funds managed by Mr. Hussain have won awards in every year since 2010. Islamic funds run by him have been recognized by Bloomberg as the best in the MENA region in 2012, 2014, and 2015. Under Mr. Hussain’s leadership Assets Under Management (AUM’s) at Mashreq’s asset management business grew from $350mm in 2012 to $1.6bn in 2016 At Arqaam AUM have grown from 0 to over $130mm within a year of starting the business. Prior to being at Mashreq he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse. Mr. Hussain was named ‘Best High Yield” analyst in Asia for 3 consecutive years from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Hussain has a BS Econ with a concentration in Finance and Decision Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies for the Andersen School at UCLA. He has been a CFA Charterholder since 1995.

CFA, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Previously chief economist at RusRating Agency, senior fixed-income analyst at Uralsib Capital, Troika Dialog,...

CFA, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Previously chief economist at RusRating Agency, senior fixed-income analyst at Uralsib Capital, Troika Dialog, Alliance Bernstein. Graduated from University of Missouri, University of Illinois, got Ph.D. at Moscow State University.

Sergey Lyalin started working in the securities market as bond analyst in IC Deviz in 1995. In 1997 he joined IC Energocapital (worked there as...

Sergey Lyalin started working in the securities market as bond analyst in IC Deviz in 1995. In 1997 he joined IC Energocapital (worked there as Client Relations Manager and then as Head of Marketing Research). In 2000, he organized the Internet portal Cbonds.Ru. He has been CEO of Cbonds.ru LLC since 2001. Under the leadership of Sergey Lyalin Cbonds News Agency has become the leading source of information on the Russian and CIS bond market. He started publishing Cbonds Review magazine in 2006 and was its Editor-in-Chief in 2006-2007. He is the author of Corporate Bonds: Global Experience and Russian Prospects (2001) and a number of articles on the securities market. Sergey Lyalin graduated from St. Petersburg University, Department of Economics (a diploma of economist - mathematician). Holds a PhD in Economics. Finished Executive MBA at Graduate School of Management (GSOM) at Saint-Petersburg State University in 2018.

Anatoliy Shal joined J.P. Morgan Moscow in October 2007, as an Economist covering Russia. Presently, Anatoliy works as an Economist responsible for Russia, Israel, and...

Anatoliy Shal joined J.P. Morgan Moscow in October 2007, as an Economist covering Russia. Presently, Anatoliy works as an Economist responsible for Russia, Israel, and the GCC. Before joining J.P. Morgan, he worked in a few local firms focusing on analysis of Russian economy. Anatoliy holds a master degree in economics from the Higher School of Economics, Russia.