The asset management industry across the Middle East continues to expand, supported by growing capital markets, increasing investor participation, and a broader range of investment products. Reflecting the sector\u2019s continued growth, Forbes Middle East has expanded its annual ranking this year to recognize the region\u2019s Top 50 Asset Managers.<\/p>\n
The 50 leaders featured in this year\u2019s rankings oversee firms that collectively managed more than $554 billion in assets in 2025, spanning local and international equity and fixed-income funds, discretionary portfolios, real estate investments, REITs, and private equity.<\/p>\n
According to BCG, assets under management across the GCC grew by 10% in 2025 to reach $2.7 trillion, driven by stronger growth in retail assets than institutional assets. Saudi Arabia remained the region\u2019s largest market for retail mutual funds and ETFs.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s list of top asset managers includes leaders from eight Arab countries. GCC-based leaders account for 43 of the 50 entries, with the firms they oversee collectively managing nearly $523 billion in assets in 2025. Saudi Arabia leads the ranking with 20 entries, whose firms managed more than $285 billion in assets. The Kingdom also dominated the MENA IPO market in 2025, accounting for 39 of the region\u2019s 49 IPOs and raising $4.9 billion of the total $7.3 billion in proceeds, according to EY.<\/p>\n
Kuwait follows with eight leaders whose firms managed $94.2 billion in assets, while the UAE contributes six leaders overseeing $32.5 billion. Qatar is represented by five leaders whose firms managed $16 billion, Bahrain by three leaders managing $94.1 billion, and Oman by one leader overseeing $1.2 billion in assets.<\/p>\n
Outside of the GCC, Egypt contributes six leaders whose firms managed $13.7 billion in assets, while Morocco is represented by one leader whose firm managed $17.5 billion.<\/p>\n
The list is almost evenly split between leaders of independent asset management firms, who account for 26 entries, and leaders of bank-affiliated asset management businesses, with 24 entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The asset management industry across the Middle East continues to expand, supported by growing capital markets, increasing investor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-533907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}