As Dubai’s GCC Developers’ Bondsales Rise to 3-years high, The ST Workshop 2012 Comes to Town

July 13, 2012 - PRLog -- As reported on khaleejtimes, Arabian Gulf property developers are raising the most since 2009 from bond sales as Dubai’s debt repayment agreements and record-low regional yields help restore investor confidence.

Majid Al Futtaim Holding, a UAE-based shopping-mall developer and operator, and Kuwait’s Al Argan International Real Estate were among companies that issued about $995 million in the first six months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The sales compare with $500 million in 2011 and $2.45 billion in the first half of 2009, the data show. Emaar Properties sold $500 million of seven-year Islamic bonds, one person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Gulf bonds have benefited from confidence Dubai will refinance financial obligations of its related entities and as investors seek safer-haven assets amid Europe’s financial crisis. Average yields on bonds from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council have dropped 99 basis points this year to a record 4.1 per cent on Wednesday, the HSBC/Nasdaq Dubai GCC Conventional US Dollar Bond Index show.

As Gcc developers’ bondsales rise to 3-years high, Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, will conduct the most thorough review of high-frequency trading at his upcoming The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Dubai: How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX, October 14 (http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com).

Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading.  He is the author of The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World (http://www.thespeedtraders.com), published by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated into Chinese and Portuguese, and course director of The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (Hong Kong, Mexico City, Moscow, Shanghai, New York and Chicago).

Mr. Perez has been featured on CNBC Cash Flow (with Oriel Morrison), CNBC Squawk Box (with Geoff Cutmore), BNN Business Day (with Kim Parlee), TheStreet.com (with Gregg Greenberg), Channel NewsAsia Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities (with Lin Xue Ling), NHK World, iMoney Hong Kong, Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, The Korea Herald,  FIXGlobal Trading, The Korea Times, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.

Mr. Perez has been engaged to present to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Pace University, among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago, London), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional Investor’s Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.  Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Dubai (http://thespeedtradersworkshopdubai.eventbrite.com/) will reveal how high-frequency trading players are succeeding in the global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to India, Singapore and Brazil. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Dubai follows  the series of presentations in the world’s most important financial centers: Mexico City, Mexico, July 27; Hong Kong, August 4; Moscow, Russia, August 10 and Singapore, September 15