This short paper is an executive summary of our interview (20 Oct. 2022) with Abdallah al-Yahya on Asharq News with Bloomberg (MENA & Western Asia audience).Looking at GDP and population terms, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Canada, Holland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore appear to be midsize...

The investment choices of large asset owners such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments, are, to a large extent ‘guided’ and pre-determined by the systematic use of old- fashioned indices or benchmarks designed by a small set of Anglo- American ‘index providers’ –...