The SBAI Middle East Forum is organised by the Standards Board for Alternative Investments in Abu Dhabi, drawing approximately 200 alternative investment professionals from across the Gulf region and internationally. The SBAI, formerly the Hedge Fund Standards Board, has expanded its remit to cover ...
The SBAI Middle East Forum is organised by the Standards Board for Alternative Investments in Abu Dhabi, drawing approximately 200 alternative investment professionals from across the Gulf region and internationally. The SBAI, formerly the Hedge Fund Standards Board, has expanded its remit to cover alternative investments broadly, and the Forum reflects this evolution toward a cross-asset class approach.
The Forum's positioning around standards and governance distinguishes it from purely commercial conferences: the SBAI's mission is to promote best practices in alternative investment management, and the event combines substantive governance and risk management content with the relationship development that characterises the Gulf's institutional investment circuit. For institutional allocators active in alternatives, the SBAI framework provides a quality signal and a shared vocabulary.
Abu Dhabi's emergence as a serious institutional alternative investment hub, supported by ADIA's scale and sophistication and the development of the Abu Dhabi Global Market regulatory framework, gives the Forum a natural home. The event sits within the broader infrastructure of institutional governance standards that Gulf sovereign and institutional investors increasingly require of their manager relationships.