BNP Paribas Investment Partners is the dedicated asset management business line of the BNP Paribas Group. BNP Paribas Investment Partners offers a full range of investment management services to institutional and retail clients around the world. Central to the way we work is the concept of partnership – both in terms of how we behave as a family of companies and our relationships with our clients.

Around 1,200 investment professionals work across our network of some 60 investment centres, each of which is a specialist in a particular asset class or type of product. With total assets under management of EUR 542 billion as of 31 March 2010, BNP Paribas Investment Partners is the fifth-largest asset manager in Europe and the eleventh-largest in the world*.

On April 1 2010, the operations of Fortis Investments were merged with those of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Fortis Investments' investment experts and international locations were a natural and complementary fit with BNP Paribas Investments Partners, whose flexible partnership model has proven successful in integrating new expertise in the past. Together, our combined company provides clients with an even broader range of investment solutions and even better client service than before.

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* Source: Based on the IPE Top 400, July 2009 (figures per 31 December 2008)

In Qatar

BNP Paribas Investment Partners (“BNPP IP”) has been managing assets for institutional clients in the Middle East and Africa for more than two decades.

Our commitment to our clients in the region was re-inforced further with the opening of our representative offices in Bahrain in 2002, and Kuwait in 2005. Through these our dedicated team of client relationship managers work very closely with clients to better serve their asset management needs.

BNPP IP offers specialist asset management capabilities and client service functions to a wide range of investors including official government institutions, state sponsored public pension funds, banks, third party distributors, insurance companies, corporates and family offices.

BNPP IP is also committed to the development of Sharia-compliant funds with the launch of the BNP Paribas Islamic Equity Optimiser in 2006 (best performing global Islamic equity fund in 2007* and the launch of the first Islamic ETF, EasyETF Dow Jones Islamic Market Titans 100.

In 2008, to strengthen its regional presence even further and to capitalise on high growth potential, BNP Paribas Investment Partners entered into a joint-venture with SAIB Asset Management Company. This new entity will offer BNP Paribas' clients across the globe regional fund and portfolio management capabilities. SAIB Asset Management Company was formerly the Investment Services and Financial Planning department of The Saudi Investment Bank (SAIB) – a leading bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia established in 1976.

Also, in 2008 BNPP IP established itself in the regional private equity market with the launch of the BNP Paribas MENA Private Equity Fund I, a Bahrain-domiciled collective investment vehicle offered to investors.

* According to independent Islamic fund rating agency Failaka, 24 March, 2008. See www.failaka.com for more details.

Tariq Al-Samahiji,
CEO of Middle East & North Africa
Tel: + 973 17 866333
E-mail : tariq.alsamahiji@mideast.bnpparibas.com