UAE despite being ranked 8 th highest per capita incomes and high standard living, has an unemployment ratio of 14 %. About 80 % jobs go to foreign professionals. With the criticality of the matter, entrepreneurship been added to diversification well to tap into hidden potential, by consulting literature and demographics to identify potential initiatives. The initiatives were rooted for by stakeholders, entrepreneurs, and youth consultants. The idea was planted in the age group 15-34 years, making up about 42 % of UAE population, because the age group has 18% unemployment rate, with a concentration of 62% women. There is a hefty concentration of 25% students which is severely in needs of opportunities. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reflect that self-employment (Total Early Stage Entrepreneurial Activity or TEA) is about 1%, out of total 3% unemployment concentration in UAE, as compared to 35% in Lebanon and 30% in Korea. What’s most challenging in bringing youth to t...

The act of allocating your resources, given the opportunity, to gain future benefits, is a basic human trait. No matter what state of mind you are in, you are always striving to achieve exponential results on your invested time, money and efforts. The investment however, needs to be thought out carefully because if you are not careful, you will end up depleting your available resources. What prompted the need of investment personnel is their access to a well-thought and carefully strategized process. If you think about it, investment strategy is merely the result of research and diversification, founded on the Warren Buffett's good investing principle, capped with a cold-calculated emotional state. Consider the process of tending a garden, you need to take care of it before expecting flowers and plants prospering there. The investment is the same, you have to work for effective investment strategy. Strategic Asset Mix The strategic asset mixed is a well-thought di...

Before the inception of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), a few partner shareholding companies were serving as a pivotal point for the country’s investment platform, but the real progress towards becoming one of the best emerging SE started with KSE. The idea of a national exchange market was legislated in October 1962, and it was achieved in 1977, and named as Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) in 1983. KSE was among the very first and foremost stock exchange market in the Gulf, named as the second largest and strongest exchange market after Saudi Arabia. The Kuwait’s National Exchange has been regulated by the combine efforts of Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Kuwait, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Kuwait Stock Exchange. The KSE was a first step to make Kuwait a safe haven for investors, with the only goal of strengthening country’s economy, with a clear and concise code of conduct for secure entities and securities transactions. With the introduction of Kuwaiti C...