Thursday 12 August 2010

FT.com - QIA ties up with Israeli conglomerate to create fund

The Qatar Investment Authority and the Olayan Group of Saudi Arabia have joined forces with a prominent Israeli conglomerate to create an emerging markets fund.

Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank, said on Thursday that it was launching a $1bn fund specialising in emerging market credit opportunities “with a small group of key shareholders”.

According to reports in Israel those shareholders are Olayan Group of Saudi Arabia, a manufacturing, services and investment conglomerate, the QIA, and IDB of Israel, a conglomerate controlled by Nochi Dankner, Israel’s most powerful businessman."

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