RIYADH, 6 May 2007 — SABB recently conducted a series of investment seminars for high net worth customers composed of its premier and private banking customers.
A total of three seminars took place in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Alkhobar.
The investment seminars were aimed at increasing customers’ awareness on international investment markets and longer-term perspectives on local markets, plus promote sales of the bank’s local and international mutual funds.
The seminars were attended by SABB’s senior executives including Nabil Al-Hoshan, general manager, personal financial services; Ahmed Al-Ameer, area general manager (AGM), Central Province; Alaa Al-Jabry, AGM, Western Province, and Zaki Abualsaud, AGM, Eastern Province.
“These seminars come under SABB’s efforts to enhance international investment awareness of customers and to assist them in taking the right investment decision that will assist them in developing their investments and savings through the exploration of suitable investment opportunities, and to enable them to study the potential of local and international financial markets,” Al-Hoshan said.
A series of presentations were conducted by an expert panel representing SABB’s treasury department and HSBC Investment Saudi Arabia — Osama Shaker, head of asset management; Fahad Al-Saif, head of global markets risk advisory and Salah Al-Allaf, head of business development.
Each seminar that took place in the three cities covered the local and global economy, SABB and HSBC Investment Saudi Arabia’s investment philosophy and SABB’s local and international mutual funds.