Arab investors set up $200 million film fund
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Investors from six Arab states will  put up $200 million to finance the production of more than a  dozen big-budget Arabic movies in English, an Arab-American  film producer told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Investors are allowed to put the money in their I.R.A.âs into almost anything, be it condominiums or airplanes. A growing number of people are doing just that.
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Startup Diligent Technologies has raised $22 million in new equity. The financing round was led by US venture capital fund Matrix partners, which made its first investment in Israel, and Accel Partners.
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Morgan Stanley  has raised the  biggest property fund ever, an $8 billion warchest, to invest  in established global markets including Japan and Europe as  well as emerging countries such as China, India and Russia.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government and several banks hold assets belonging to Holocaust victims worth more than $200 million, according a parliamentary report released yesterday that harshly criticized authorities for not doing enough to locate the accounts' owners.
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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the Arab world.
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This fund combines the Pacific Rim and Europe.
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Franklin Templeton Investments, which  manages $621 billion in assets, has bought 25 percent of  Dubai&#39;s Algebra Capital Ltd and wants to grow its business in  Arab markets, it said on Tuesday.
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In a ceremony as lavish as the Arabian  Nights, Dubai wrapped up its third international film festival  on Sunday night with new cash awards for Arab cinema scooped up  by Algerian, Tunisian and Palestinian films.
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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars  descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival  that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the  Arab world.
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A $2 billion hedge fund fails, and there will be more, analysts say.
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$1bn for peace Online casino impresario Avi Shaked, founder of gambling website 888.com, has confirmed today in a wide ranging interview with the Jerusalem Post that he has proposed a $1bn private equity fund for economic investment in the occupied Palestinian territories.â¦
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Dubai, a swiftly rising city on the Persian Gulf that recently sponsored a weeklong film festival, has highly ambitious plans for the silver screen.
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Morgan Stanley plans to sell bonds backed by revenue from movies made by Paramount Vantage, a studio whose films include the drama "Babel" starring Brad Pitt and "A Mighty Heart" featuring Angelina Jolie.
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Investors are running back into mutual funds.
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A cohort of Palestinian intellectuals proposed setting up a central Zakah fund to channel the alms into productive projects
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A group of French banks are setting up  an investment fund to bail out small and midsize asset managers  if there is a liquidity shortage, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.