The Middle East is an unusual emerging market. It attracts investors with its oil wealth (+40% of the world’s proven oil reserves). Its consumer and competitive dynamics are fairly stable and predictable. And it has a +70-year history of successful deals with Western partners. All of these things make it particularly attractive and manageable for […]
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Great Review of My Book by Chris Mayer at Agora Financial
Chris Mayer, managing editor at Agora Financial and author of Mayer’s Special Situations, reviewed my book. Really dead-on accurate I thought. I am reading his book Invest Like a Deal Maker. The review is reproduced below with his permission: ———————– The Prince of Deals Prince Alwaleed is one of the world’s greatest investors. Born in […]
An Interview with Dividend Income Investor.com (Oct 11, 2011)
The text below is from an October 11, 2011 interview with Steven Dotsch of Value Talk / Dividend Income Investor. The link is here. ————– Today we’re joined by Jeffrey Towson, who was Head of Direct Investments Middle East/North Africa and Asia Pacific for HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud – grandson of […]