Credit: Network Middle East Abundance 360 (A360) Summit explores advances in exponential technology Ever heard of exponential technology? You might soon as the ‘Davos for Exponential Tech’ makes its Middle East debut this year in Dubai. The Abundance 360 (A360) Summit will take place from March 26th to the 27th, a partnership between Dubai Future Foundation…
Author: Alisha Moopen, Executive Director and CEO – Aster DM Healthcare In today’s world, where we are constantly challenged by issues like growing inequality, poverty, evolving health and environmental risks; we as business leaders are always faced with hard questions on how do we make our businesses sustainable to have a positive impact on the…
Chinese Capital Controls? The year 2017 saw Beijing simultaneously tightening and ‘relaxing’ its outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) protocols. In a somewhat confusing move, following a strew of disastrous Chinese investment decisions, and set against a background of politicking among the People’s Party and an ongoing battle against capital flight, Beijing began to scrutinise many…
While the world debates the virtues of private vs public healthcare, the GCC is busy pioneering medtech advances that transform lives. The healthcare industry in the GCC can be difficult to understand. On the one hand, the GCC is a high-income region financed with oil-revenues but on the other, it is still classed as developing…
A high-level delegation from business facilitation company Naseba invited for the Annual Investor Meeting of E-fung Capital, supporting deals in pharmaceuticals and portfolio companies DUBAI – With ambitions to boost private equity and venture capital investment in China, a high-level delegation from international business facilitation company Naseba, has attended the annual investor meeting of E-fung…
As connectivity continues to enable and improve people’s lives around the world, we are seeing some incredibly transformative impacts across all aspects of human life. Just take a minute to think about the way you currently communicate, access information, consume media, share experiences, order goods, and services, or make payments in your day-to-day life compared…
This year, the World Economic Forum was dominated with talk of healthcare’s high-tech revolution, from lab bench to bedside… and not a “robot” in sight. The digital revolution is commonly associated with communications and information, characterised by the internet, digital coms, social media and the industries these have created and supported. Now change is happening…
Rising incomes and a growing middle class in China is boosting investment into healthcare, pharmacy and self-care. This was recently highlighted by the announcement that a Chinese investor group will be acquiring the condom division of Ansell Ltd, the world’s second-largest condom maker, for USD 600 million. The amount represents 16 times the division’s earnings…
The healthcare system in GCC territories has become a growing concern in recent years. Beyond problems such as a growing population and a higher average lifespan, countries’ such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar have become host to some of the highest rates of chronic lifestyle diseases in the world. In the UAE, diabetes affects 19%…
UAE’s Mubadala Development Co have announced an investment coalition with the Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, revealing very few details about specific future investments, and leaving much excitement to the imagination. Between the two investor groups, new projects could have access to anything within the $100 billion worth of assets at the disposal of HNA or…