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  • Asset Management
    Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and its wealth of potential

    World Finance spoke to Khaled Waleed Al Braikan, Head of Asset Management at NCB Capital, to find out his views on Vision 2030 and whether it will create opportunities for the asset management industry and NCB Capital itself.

  • Saudi Budget
    Commentary: Saudi budget 2018: Worthy of Vision 2030

    The budget, which in the past has been 90 percent dependent on oil revenues, is this year not more than 50 percent based on revenue from oil. The remainder is 30 percent from non-oil revenues, 12 percent from public debt and 8 percent from government funds.

  • Vision 2030
    Commentary: What’s Holding Back Saudi Vision 2030?

    “It’s going to take longer (than many expected),” a Saudi banker working on the transactions told Reuters. “There are headwinds from the shifting of priorities in government and at a micro-level as these are old institutions that have often never kept books and are not up to the rigors of privatization.”

  • Shake up in Saudi
    Opinion: Riyadh Is Delivering on Vision 2030

    This is a watershed moment. The old ways have ceased to be sustainable long ago and must be replaced. The new way will offer a predictable long-term approach and transparent business environment for investors, who will be surprised by the burgeoning talent and potential of our young people. There is no going back.

  • Vision 2030
    Analysis: The Fate Of Vision 2030 Rests On Saudi Aramco IPO

    MBS’ Vision 2030 plans depend on an extra couple hundred billion dollars from the Saudi Aramco initial public offering (IPO) in 2018. The IPO, the largest of its kind in financial history, would make just a five percent portion of the oil giant accessible to private investors. Still, the volume of the company’s assets guarantee MBS the capital he needs to retrain the Saudi work force, develop a services sector and tone down the influence of the fossil fuel interests.

  • Vision 2030
    Vision 2030 and Saudi Arabia’s Social Contract Austerity and Transformation

    Vision 2030 implies a degree of social liberalization to enable the growth of the entertainment and tourism industries, as well as extensive reforms to the education system, traditionally a stronghold of Saudi Arabia’s religious clerics. If followed through, this would transform relations between the state and its citizens, politically and socially as well as economically, and also the government’s partnership with the clerisy

  • Vision 2030
    Perspective: Vision 2030 and the future of business in the Kingdom

    The economic impact of the Vision 2030 is best understood in terms of three distinct arcs: Fiscal reform, portfolio management and economic expansion.

  • Ahmed Mater
    Saudi Vision 2030: Game Changers Series

    Internationally acclaimed artist, Ahmed Mater, looks at Saudi's emerging art scene.

  • Vision 2030
    Saudi Arabia Sets Forth “Vision 2030” Economic Reform Agenda

    As much as $1 trillion in foreign direct investment could flow into Saudi Arabia over the coming 15 years, as the oil-rich nation seeks to diversify its economy and boost its private sector, according to a study by Oxford Strategic Consulting.

  • Vision 2030
    Saudi Arabia sets out 10 more programs to achieve Vision 2030

    The Council of Economic Affairs and Development has identified 10 programs of strategic importance for the government to achieve Saudi Vision 2030, which was approved by the Council of Ministers in April 2016.