Junaid Farooq

FIM Partners is an active manager of public and private market assets listed and/or primarily operating in emerging and frontier markets. Their investment strategies utilize fundamental and quantitative data analysis. The strategy is designed to exploit inefficiencies in the client account’s target markets through a security selection process which is underpinned by a combination of thematic and bottom-up research and fundamental and quantitative data analytics. These securities typically exhibit a combination of discounted valuation and strong growth. The portfolio construction process reflects FIM Partners’ top investment ideas and is executed to optimize the risk-return profile of the strategy and achieve capital appreciation. The account is actively managed with the aim of preserving and/or improving the expected risk-return profile of the strategy.

EFG Hermes-UAE tailors their strategies to their clients' needs, risk profiles and investment objectives. The firm typically seeks to consistently outperform regional benchmarks. Their overall investment strategy aims for long-term capital appreciation across their various investment portfolios. They concentrate their investments in the Middle East and North Africa. They are a Sharia-compliant investment manager. They actively look for dynamic asset allocations aligned with Islamic investment principles. The firm's public equity investment approach is based on a fundamental, absolute-return driven strategy. They invest in capital markets in the MENA region and look to produce risk adjusted-returns. Their balanced portfolio's emphasis is on capital preservation while investing in fixed-income securities and listed equity. They typically look for an allocation of 40 to 60 percent of the portfolio in equity with the balance in money market instruments and fixed income. EFG Hermes-UAE's fixed income portfolio invests in corporate and government fixed income securities. The firm's investment strategy for their indexed portfolio seeks outperformance of regional and country-specific indices. They invest in diversified equities in the capital markets of the MENA region. The portfolio is rebalanced on a quarterly basis to minimize potential tracking errors.

Mashreq-IM is an active manager which performs fundamental research to provide managed account services implementing customized investment strategies and manages mutual funds that has exposure to the Qatar, UAE, GCC, Middle East and North African markets.