Recent Posts

KIA plans to cut reliance on external managers

  Bloomberg Kuwait Investment Authority is planning to manage more of its own assets as the world’s fifth-largest sovereign wealth fund seeks to take more risk to boost returns. The KIA, as the fund is known, wants to increase the allocation of funds managed in-house to as much as 8 percent from 1 or 2 percent at present, Managing Director ...

Read More »

Saudi expects growth ‘significantly higher’ than forecast

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s growth this year will be “significantly higher” than the International Monetary Fund’s new forecast, according to Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan. Economic expansion will be “north of 1 percent,” Al-Jadaan said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The IMF lowered its forecast to 0.4 percent from 2 percent in its World Economic ...

Read More »

Qualcomm accused of forcing deal on Apple to thwart rivals

  Bloomberg Qualcomm Inc. forced Apple Inc. to use its chips exclusively in return for lower licensing fees, unfairly cutting out competitors, the US said in a lawsuit against the biggest maker of mobile phone chips. Qualcomm’s exclusive deal with Apple was detailed in a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of illegally maintaining a monopoly for semiconductors used ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend