Feature: Company profile - Equities emerge from the East.(Company overview)

Pensions Management, December, 2008

Byline: Ceri Jones

Kuwaiti investment company Global Investment House, one of the largest asset management and investment banking companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), was co-founded in Kuwait in 1998 by Maha Al-Ghunaim, managing director, who has become its best-known face, winning numerous awards for achievement, including being listed as one of Forbes magazine's 100 most powerful women.

Global's private equity division has more than $3bn (GBP1.9bn) under management through five private equity funds, of which ...