Shariah Finance grows leaps and bounds in the Middle East-but he issues of Shariah Law, what it means to US and the West are never discussed. Unless you understand Shariah, there is no silver lining

In the Middle East, home to a small but rapidly growing leveraged buyout industry, two local funds, Abraaj Capital and Investcorp, are well on their way to completing major fund-raising events in the next few months as they continue to sell out of earlier investments.
Major private equity funds in the West, like the Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, are seeing their profits collapse. In some cases, the large private equity firms are unable to raise funds at the same rate as in recent years.
But their counterparts in the Middle East are expanding their investor base internationally, possibly at the expense of Western funds, as interest shifts to the region’s petroleum-financed renaissance.
In 2007, funds investing in private equity markets in the Gulf raised $4.1 billion compared with $3 billion a year earlier, according to Private Equity Intelligence, an investment newsletter based in London. Total assets under management are more than $25 billion. But, in a sign of how nascent the industry is, less than a third of the funds have an operating track record of more than two years.
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