Global Investment House (Global) announced today that it has received two awards from MENA Fund Manager (MENA FM), one of the leading organizations that monitor the regional asset management industry. Global EPADI Fund (Energy, Petrochemical, and Downstream Industries Fund) was recognized as "GCC Equity Fund of the Year" and the Global Distressed Fund received the "Fund of Funds of the Year" Award.

The awards were presented in an event held on Monday 16 January 2012 in Dubai and attended by professionals from the regional investment and asset management industry. Dr. Nasser K. Bourislee, General Manager of Global - Dubai received the awards.

Dr. Bourislee said, "We are delighted that MENA Fund Manager recognized our achieved performance recorded last year on various products. We were able to accomplish these results by consistently placing our clients' interests at the forefront and continuously seeking to offer optimum quality products and services.”

“I would like to thank our Asset Management Team at Global, whose efforts and hard work have acquired very positive results, with most of our funds outperforming their peers and respective benchmarks." He concluded.