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It's Not Oil Money: Soling Partners on the Middle East's Evolving Allocator Landscape
In this episode of the Dakota Insights Interview Series, hosts Chris Leroy and Alex DeMarco sit down with Marius Vigantis and Richard Banks, founding partners of Soling Partners, a boutique advisory firm focused exclusively on the Middle East. Together, Marius and Richard bring over 50 years of combined experience in the region, and they walk through everything a fund manager needs to know before engaging the Gulf — from how to think about the allocator landscape to the patience and partnership required to succeed.
Marius founded Soling in 2015 after a decade at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's…
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