Saudi Arabia To Open Up Stock Market To Foreigners

31DecDecember 31, 2014

Saudi Arabia To Open Up Stock Market To Foreigners

Saudi Arabia, seeking to diversify its economy from oil, is opening its stock market to sophisticated, well-healed investors for the first time, Bloomberg reports.

The kingdom’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) is seeking $509 billion in investments from sophisticated foreign investors with a minimum of five years experience and $5 billion in assets under management, although certain exemptions could . . .

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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