Hedge Fund Titan Howard Helps Abu Dhabi Morph Into a Global Hub

Alan Howard planted a flag in Abu Dhabi in 2023, the opening act of his eponymous hedge fund’s campaign to win over the emirate’s deep-pocketed investors. When he talked up the city months later, that outpost was well on its way to becoming his firm’s biggest risk-taking center.

A couple years ago, “I thought it would be the third leg or one of the three legs with New York and London,” Howard said at the city’s annual finance confab on Monday. “I think it’s fully on its way to already be there.”