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Dubai's Damac Properties is also eyeing U.S. real estate acquisitions, following the lead of Emaar Properties the largest Arab property developer by market value, which bought U.S. John Laing Homes last year.

"You will see more acquisitions," said the DIFC's Shaali.

"Reverse globalization -- when you have emerging market players going out and acquiring developed institutions -- is a tide that no matter how you try to swing against it, will be very very prevalent in the years to come," he said.

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OIL PRICE MOVES LEAVE GULF INVESTORS UNFAZED
By Veronica Brown

Reuters
March 28, 2007

Original source: Reuters

DUBAI -- Fluctuating oil prices may keep major producers and consumers awake at night, but Gulf investors flush with cash from recent oil price spikes say market volatility is barely causing a ripple on their horizons.

Investors in the region are adopting a sanguine attitude towards crude prices, stemming from the security of knowing much of the major revenue gained from prices hitting lofty peaks last year has not flowed into Gulf economies yet.

And while volatile oil prices may not be at record levels, values in excess of $60 per barrel are keeping the coffers bulging in Gulf economies.

"If you look at the current account balances of the GCC countries, excess revenue from the increase in oil prices hasn't even entered those economies yet," Nasser al Shaali, CEO of the Dubai International Financial Centre told Reuters Middle East Investment Summit this week.

"Only about 10-15 percent of it has so far," he added.

A marked shift has also been seen in the types of investments made now in various sectors including real estate, infrastructure, telecoms, and banking, compared with assets such as stocks and bonds bought with cash from earlier oil booms.

The value of infrastructure projects planned in the region topped $1 trillion (510 billion pounds) in 2006, according to the Middle East Economic Digest database.

"People want to put this (money) in hard assets now. They have learned their lesson. Before they put it in very speculative stock markets or just had it asleep in bonds and Treasuries," Atif Abdulmalik, CEO of private equity group Arcapita said.

Volatility has been the hallmark of Gulf stocks, with four of the region's seven markets losing more than 35 percent of their value in 2006.

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