The largest conference for various investments within the Middle East and North Africa can host over 500 investors overseeing in more than US$10 trillion in assets

The seventh edition of the alternative Investment Management (AIM) Summit is going to be command in Dubai on the 26th and 27th of November. The main focus of this year's event will be 'The Shifting Paradigm of other Investments'.

Attendees, as well as distinguished family offices, investment professionals, and business leaders from all across the world can discuss the upsurge in volatility throughout 2018 and also the investment outlook for 2019 and beyond. Topics on the agenda embody crypto-economics, the future of venture capital, the increase of algorithmic trading at hedge funds, and therefore the state of the distressed debt market.

The evolution of private equity and venture capital across the MENA region is high on the agenda at this year's summit. Once MENA startups raised $560 million in 260 deals last year, investors are bracing for larger startup deals within the region throughout 2018 and 2019. "Developing the proper development plans is arguably the last major challenge to deal sourcing." Sabah al-Binali can deliver a keynote speech on these essential topics.

"The AIM Summit can give a stage for prime profile debate. Key business leaders from across the middle East and round the globe can try to be of what's an progressively challenging international investment landscape," says Raha Moradi, AIM Summit Conference Director. "We are trying forward to what we expect to be one of the most fascinating and well-attended AIM conferences in our history."

A number of speakers at the summit can address the emerging asset class of cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens. whereas the outlook for VC deals in 2019 remains as bright as ever, investors are keen to know however initial coin offerings (ICOs) might disrupt or augment the business. Many speakers at the summit can compare the VC landscape with the rising ICO/STO scene, try to classify some digital assets as a brand new asset class, highlight however Distributed Ledger Technology enhances existing asset classes, and take into cryptocurrency worth dynamics.

Navin Gupta, Ripple's MD for Asia and therefore the Middle East, can represent the Firm behind the world's third largest cryptocurrency XRP. Gupta's keynote can take into deeper economic theory on tokenization, distributed ledgers (DLT), and therefore the viability of digital currencies issued by central banks. "Distributed ledger technology is dynamic the ways in which monetary establishments and governments round the world examine moving money across borders," says Gupta. "Remittances particularly are a game-changing use case, as DLT will scale back a lot of of the friction and price of sending cash internationally."

Another speaker addressing the identical topic is that the founding father of DIFC-based hedge fund Dalma Capital Management, Zachary Cefaratti. "Crypto assets became progressively attractive to institutional investors within the past year," he says. "Security tokens are on the rise, with the chance of ancient investment categories and personal placements to relish the advantages of tokenization, as well as redoubled transparency and liquidity. At the identical time, non-security crypto-asset markets like cryptocurrencies, stable-coins, utility tokens, platform/protocol tokens and infrastructure tokens have matured considerably, addressing problems with quantifiability and hunting down problematic vapor-ware offerings as investors became additional subtle."

Hosted at the Ritz Carlton, Dubai International financial Centre (DIFC), the summit will feature 75 noteworthy speakers, as well as Dr. Fahad M. Alturki, Chief economist & Head of research at Jadwa Investments; Christof H. Rühl, Head of global research at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; Sabah al-Binali, CEO of Universal Strategy and vice chairman of the Board at The National Investor; Fiona Treble, Director and Head of Membership at AIMA and Henry Sender, Chief Correspondent at the financial Times.

About the AIM Summit

Annual AIM Summits are completely for business leaders and key decision makers at leading companies. it's the most important conference for different investment within the Middle East and North Africa. every year it welcomes over 500 investors and investment managers overseeing in far more than US$10 trillion in assets. Participants embody sovereign wealth funds, family offices, hedge funds, private equity managers, private debt managers, venture capitalists, endowments, foundations, pension funds, digital asset and blockchain innovators, investors and disruptors. This year's event in city can feature over 75+ eminent speakers and investors from across 50 countries.

To know more on the event, you can logon to: www.aimsummit.com

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