In late 2005, Al-Mal Conference Company was founded as one of the arms of Al-Mal Newspaper. To maximize the usefulness of the economic conferences organized by Al-Mal Conference Company, it was agreed in late 2012 that the trademark of Al-Mal Conference and the brand of the conference organizer GTM be merged into one company, Al-Mal GTM Conference Organizing Corporation. Al-Mal GTM is the most robust and vibrant national company in the areas of conference organizing and opinion-making. Among the major events held by Al-Mal GTM are the Portfolio Egypt conferences, the Real Estate Debate, and CEOs Thoughts.

ELEVATING EVENTS TO EXCEPTIONAL HEIGHtTS

With the imminent announcement detailing the new Ras El Hekma City on the northwest coast, along with the anticipated launch of the second phase of the New Administrative Capital project, it can be said that 2025 will be highly significant for Egypt's real estate industry. These developments may, therefore, alter Egypt's standing in the international real estate market.

The real estate industry in Egypt has achieved significant successes in recent years, with its contribution to GDP rising from 57 billion pounds in 2018 to approximately 124 billion in 2023, now accounting for 20% of the country’s GDP. This remarkable growth prompts important questions about the Egyptian real estate market's position within the global landscape.

Over the past ten years, the Egyptian state has made significant progress in the field of urban development by implementing President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's directives. The goals of sustainable urban development have been met by resolving issues that have accumulated over time, meeting Egyptian citizens' present and future needs, improving citizens' quality of life, establishing new development centers to draw in local investment, creating international competition for some development projects, and improving Egypt's standing on the global investment map.

Through the Minister, Engineer Sherif El-Sherbiny, the Ministry of Housing confirmed that nine phases of the Beit Al Watan project were initiated between 2012 and 2023. These phases included the allotment of thousands of residential and service plots of land, residential units of various types, villas, and cemeteries. To date, total sales of the project have reached approximately 7.3 billion dollars, and plans are in place to initiate additional phases.

The Central Business District projects in the New Administrative Capital and the development of the Ras El Hekma area are just two of the national initiatives Egypt is undertaking to bolster its market leadership in the Middle East.

Al Mal GTM is working to accurately define Egypt's position on the global real estate investment map through the Real Estate Development Conference. The conference aims to address the record-breaking real estate sales this year and the expectations for future growth. Additionally, it will explore the necessary steps the government must take in collaboration with the private sector to enhance Egypt's ranking in the international real estate market.

To maximize returns on upcoming investments, marketers have been tasked with developing expert marketing plans and launching high-level promotional campaigns. The Ministry of Housing, represented by the New Urban Communities Authority, intends to market thousands of housing units in new cities over the next few years.

Positioning Egypt on the global real estate map

The 8th Real Estate Debate 2024

Portfolio Egypt examines all issues relating to non-banking financial services to
explore opportunities and challenges through presenting investment insights,
future plans, and the strategies of representatives of the largest financial
entities, governmental actors, and decision-makers.

In recent years, Arab financial markets have experienced varying degrees of success in attracting foreign capital. While some have made significant strides in terms of financial instruments and offerings, others have struggled with weak trading due to limited sectoral representation and a lack of new offerings.

The "Portfolio Egypt 2024" conference, in collaboration with the Financial Regulatory Authority, the Egyptian Stock Exchange, and the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges, aims to explore opportunities for genuine integration and cooperation among Arab stock exchanges. In this context, exchanging expertise and achieving technical integration among these exchanges have become crucial.

During the conference, four sessions will address key topics for the financial sector and the future of investing. These include a session on the potential for integration between Arab markets, a discussion on the shallowness of financial market products and potential solutions, an exploration of "carbon markets" and their role in facilitating clean investments, and a session on regional debt markets.

The conference's main goal is to generate a set of recommendations for developing regional markets by highlighting successful experiences, current challenges, and intense competition.

Arab Stock Markets: Integration or Competition

The 7th Portfolio Egypt Conference

The financial markets have radically changed since the beginning of 2022, during which economic conditions have turned upside down. Vigorous actions have been taken to counter the repercussions of wars sparked globally and impacted emerging markets.
Amid this momentum, the non-banking financial sector is restlessly struggling to remain one of the most attracting sectors in the Egyptian market by seeking to operate and by creating suitable alternatives to deal with inflation devouring incomes and wealth. The sector attempts to prove its capability to introduce new products, which would open up new frontiers for profit amid crises.
Midst all these fast-moving events, there are golden opportunities seized by those seeking direct investment through shares in the stock market. The attractiveness of these shares has recently increased in the eyes of external entities, which would revive the market given its inactivity.
One of the top priorities in 2022 is the tools and formulas of green financing introduced as the state is heading to green economy and is hosting a conference on climate in November.

Growth Against Headwinds&nbsp;

The 6th Portfolio Egypt Conference

Over the last year, world economies have been hit by a grave crisis. Consequently, certain sectors, such as tourism, have declined rapidly while others, such as financial technology, have grown. Currently, markets are increasingly recovering. Hopefully, 2021 is the year of economic revival and pandemic fading.
As for the Egyptian economy, many assessment and research institutions have agreed that the local market is strong. Given the fact that the Egyptian economy has achieved positive growth rate in GDP, despite the impact of pandemic crisis, this would make Egypt a major destination that attracts investments returning from the war with Corona-virus pandemic consequences. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Those who are interested in investment, merge and acquisition affairs know that there is a buoyant demand for making business in the Egyptian market to take advantage of the current decline in value due to the impact of Corona-virus pandemic crisis. Meanwhile, new players of venture capitalists, who were not among the investors of local market previously, are forthcoming.&nbsp;
As a result, several activities of the non-banking financial sector were effectively able to move and grow under pandemic crisis. In return, other sectors have severely suffered while some activities maintained their regular growth rates despite Corona-virus pandemic crisis.

Non-Banking Financial Sector
Growth under Pandemic Dominance

The 5th Portfolio Egypt 2021

Non-banking financial services sector is stepping forward strongly and steadily in the Egyptian market to be one of the most salient investment destinations at the current phase.
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&nbsp;This is manifested in attempts to expand existing entities, and the emergence of new operators as well as introducing legislation and regulations, which enhance opportunities for growth
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This coincides with explicit government's interest in supporting the stock market through developing an integrated program for state-owned companies IPOs, which is being implemented. The IPOS program would result in attracting capitals and new investors and encouraging entities from the private sector to join listed companies, as well as developing the capital market through launching new trading mechanisms.
Despite optimism surrounding many players in the sector, some risks still loom ahead such as emerging market crisis and its impact on the region, and the future of exchange rate, which would affect all financing areas and investing decisions.

Opportunities Blunted by Risks

The 4th Portfolio Egypt Conference 2019

The economic scene in Egypt is set for further reform measures, accompanied with funda- mental changes and severe consequences as well as a scheme to bring into effect a concept of financial inclusion.
In the midst of such high waters, new qualitatively different investment opportunities spring
up: and the majority of which are non-banking financial activities. These activities have turned out into a field for competition between various local institu- tions, seeking to maintain sustainable profitability in a fast-changing
environment.
In particular, the capital market is expecting a new period of prosperity with a plan of a large number of public IPOS and private placements, which the market has not been through for years.
Under such circumstances, effective communication and collaboration between the govern- ment's executive and regulatory agencies will have a great role to play in order to achieve maximum gains from these opportunities. And this should reflect positively on the perfor- mance of both market players and the various economic sectors.

Opportunities &amp; Challenges in the Age of Reform

The 3rd Portfolio Egypt Conference 2018

In its program for economic reform, Egypt banks on all its resources to lure in investors and pass through the bottleneck onto a new stage of recovery and sustainable development. The government has recently relied on the restoration of local stock market activity so that it can attract finance into state-run enterprises and encourage local and foreign capitals.
In this year's round, the Portfolio Egypt event attempts to assess the ability of the Egyptian stock market to haul the economy to growth, the government schemes and IPOs timetable, and the Egyptian Sovereign Fund.
Through this event, we will try to explore the viewpoints of foreign and Arab investors and their appraisal on investment opportunities as well as impediments, notably the exchange rate and its impacts on the present recession in various economic sectors.
Finally, the conference will reevaluate the innovative ability of nonbanking financial activities and the chance for their expansion to cover the increasing demand for finance by the state, the private sector and the final consumer.

Hunting for Opportunities

The 2nd Portfolio Egypt Conference 2017

Al Mal GTM plans to launch the Portfolio Egypt 2016 Conference, which will bring together top players in the capital market financial engineering business, officials representing a number of listed companies and directors of regulatory agencies in the local market. The event will be launched under the motto "Capital Markets.. Poised for Boom". The conference aims to broaden the base of companies tapping the securities markets for funding and financial investments.
During the conference, the government's plans for the management of state assets will be reviewed in the mirror of participating investment banks and their capacity to translate these plans into facts. Initiatives on solutions and ideas for public companies, including Public Enterprise Sector, will be reviewed, especially as Public Enterprise companies returned to the limelight with a separate ministry in the new cabinet.
The event will include detailed discussions on the activities of investment banks, IPOS, securities brokerage, asset management, private equity investments, fund management, and financial and management restructuring. Present legislation and instruments will be reviewed in light of the required legal structure. The conference will also include a special session to discuss small and medium financial activities, which acquire a priority position among decision makers and financial institutions, to broaden the base of investors and entrepreneurs and create jobs.

Capital Markets.. Poised for Boom

The 01st Portfolio Egypt Conference 2016

Portfolio Egypt

CEOs Thoughts brings together a number of top chief executive officers from
private sector firms representing key sectors. The high-ranking officials offer
their prospects for the performance of the Egyptian economy and various
sectors in the New Year. Further, the senior executives propose their
company's strategies in light of challenges and opportunities.

"The most difficult stage in many years," is what the Egyptian economy&nbsp; has been going through, experiencing unprecedented fluctuation in key&nbsp; macroeconomic indicators, particularly inflation, the exchange rate&nbsp; dilemma, and ongoing pressures from the difficulties brought on by the&nbsp; significant changes in the global economy. Despite grappling with complex realities and continuous shocks from&nbsp; multiple directions, most notably the outcomes of the coronavirus&nbsp; pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the aggression on Gaza, The Egyptian&nbsp; government has made commendable strides in its efforts to build a strong&nbsp; and resilient economy. They have set in motion several plans and&nbsp; programs, as evident from the ongoing implementation of the economic&nbsp; reform program, enhancing the role of the private sector, putting the State&nbsp; Ownership Policy into effect, and joining global groups such as BRICS,&nbsp; with benefits drawn from interactions with their members. During the coming period, the Egyptian government is aiming to deepen&nbsp; the industry, promote the green economy, entrepreneurship, and&nbsp; empower the private sector, as well as innovation. They will also&nbsp; introduce several targeted investment incentives for various sectors of the&nbsp; economy. The largest obstacle that Egypt's economy will face in the near&nbsp; future is securing the dollars needed to import the goods necessary for&nbsp; production in order to raise GDP,
The CEOs Thoughts Conference, now in its ninth session, aims to provide&nbsp; more clarity on the prospects for the Egyptian economy to rebound in&nbsp; 2024, as well as the potential for development plans and weathering the&nbsp; unfavorable effects of international political developments. The conference aims to shed more light on the opportunities to fill the&nbsp; dollar gap, attract foreign investments, boost Egyptian exports, and utilize&nbsp; the money market and non-banking financial activities to develop the&nbsp; formal economy, through the support of various small, medium, or micro&nbsp; projects. A portion of the conference's discussions are also devoted to the&nbsp; industry's file, its difficulties, and the incentives needed for its growth. It&nbsp; opens the agricultural investment file as it is a valuable but untapped tool&nbsp; and determines the processes needed to draw in both local and foreign&nbsp; capital to expand the agricultural sector and increase land areas. Along with shedding light on the latest developments in key industries&nbsp; like communications, information technology, and real estate, it also&nbsp; addresses the issues facing the banking industry regarding interest rates,&nbsp; exchange rates, and the future of digital banks.

&nbsp;A Year For Exploring Recovery&nbsp;

The 9th CEOs Thoughts 2024 Conference

In 2023, the Egyptian economy is going through a defining phase. There are issues of primary importance including economic path development after obtaining an IMF loan and responding to challenges relating to substantial changes in the global economy due to unprecedented political events.
Under particular and exceptional circumstances, the Egyptian government has drawn up plans to adapt to the changing socioeconomic situation to strike a balance between maintaining business continuity and achieving economic growth.
As part of its plan, the government has adopted a flexible exchange rate, a long-awaited procedure, and has announced incentives for investors. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has also announced that governmental entities can partner with new ventures by providing 50% of capital.
In its direction, the government offers several investment opportunities in vital sectors including real estate, infrastructure, transport, education, and health. Further, the golden license is granted to manufacturers.
In the current year, the CEO's Thoughts Conference explores opportunities that might arise beneath the surface in the context of economic development plans. The event also discusses avenues available to various economic sectors to keep growth and profitability and to avoid the negative impact of global financial and political developments.
Moreover, the conference looks at the industry localization files to identify ways to attain this difficult goal, and to devise an urgent plan to achieve it. Also, the financial market sector&rsquo;s prospects in terms of resilience and attraction of foreign investments are discussed.
Furthermore, the convention discusses challenges faced by the banking sector such as exchange rate and interest rate hikes. Additionally, the conference highlights major developments in the key sectors of the Egyptian economy including &nbsp;ICT, real estate, and transport.&nbsp;

Year of Major Challenges

The 8th CEOs Thoughts 2022 Conference

The sixth "CEOS Thoughts 2019" conference brings together the leaders of large corporations operating in 6 major sectors influencing the Egyptian economy namely financial market, banking, insurance, manufacturing, construction and e-payment. The conference examines opportunities and challenges of 2020 as the government has put in place economic reforms, and the central bank has been reducing interest rate. With the participation of 300 firms operating in 10 key sectors, the conference reveals the 6th annual report of confidence index of CEOs in the Egyptian economy, and the indicators of the private sector investments and their implications on the economy in terms of inflation, exchange rate, sales and costs as well as target growth projections of these businesses in 2020.
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Challenges of Low-Interest-Rates Economy

The 6th CEOS Thoughts Conference 2019

The Fifth CEOs Thoughts conference brings together the leaders of large corporations influencing the Egyptian economy from financial market, manufacturing, banking, real estate and trade sectors at the local and regional levels to convey their vision for business environment during 2019, and to review opportunities and challenges after the reform measures taken by the government over the past period.
With the participation of senior executives from 300 firms operating in 10 key sectors, the conference reveals the 5th annual report of confidence index of CEOs in the Egyptian economy, issued by the economic daily Al-Mal each year.
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"Business Views of 2019 Risks &amp; Opportunities"

The 5th CEOs THOUGHTS 2018

The fourth "CEOs Thoughts 2017 conference brings together the leaders of large corporations influencing the Egyptian economy from various sectors such as financial market, manufacturing, banking, and real estate at the local and regional levels with the purpose of unveiling their investment plans for the new year, and providing a thorough assessment of business environment and economic opportunities and challenges after a difficult year at all levels.
The conference reveals the 4th annual report of the confidence index of CEOs in the Egyptian economy, and the indicators of private sector investments and their impact on the economy in terms of inflation, exchange rate, sales, costs and prospects for target growth of their activities in the new year.

CEOs Vision

The 4th CEOs Thoughts 2017

CEO Thoughts

Real Estate Debate adopts strategies that would promote the property sector in
light of the opportunities and challenges of the Egyptian market by conducting
broad discussions between property developers, on the one hand, and between
finance institutions and decision-makers, on the other.

In the Egyptian market, the property sector remains the most dynamic and attractive for investments, given its association with citizens and the attention paid by the government to reinvigorate this sector as a critical driver of development and an operator of other industries. Still, more recently, property developers, contracting firms, and engineering consultancy businesses have taken concrete steps to search for business opportunities in foreign and neighboring markets to replicate the successful Egyptian experience.
To this end, the New Urban Communities Authority, affiliated with the Housing Ministry, is massively increasing investments on an annual basis to implement the required infrastructure for the development of new cities that are being created in most provinces.
Moreover, new generations of property developers have entered the market in eastern and western Cairo and other vital areas. Further, there have been local developers establishing affiliated arms to work in external and nearby markets.
Foreign reports state that Egypt is a healthy market for investing. The real estate sector is one of the most vital sectors, as the property market is projected to see considerable growth in the future, which would help investors take advantage of available opportunities. This would also increase the prospects for success of Egyptian experiences in nearby markets such as Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Iraq, and some African countries, which became clear to everyone at the September Cityscape Global exhibition in Riyadh.
However, before presenting the hundreds of advantages offered by the local property market, the challenges facing the sector and its players should not be ignored. Among these challenges are escalating construction costs, solvency inadequacy, and difficulties in rationally pricing units intended to be sold due to fluctuations in building material prices.

How can the Egyptian market benefit from the external expansion opportunities of firms?

The 7th Real Estate Debate 2023

Is the property sector really in crisis? At first glance, the answer is " yes" followed by a review of several solutions and proposals that should be considered by the government and developers to avoid the effects of the crisis.
However, realistically, based on the periodic quarterly reports of property firms on business results, it would be clear that firms compete in unveiling the achievement of the highest sales volumes in their history as companies benefitted from growing sales and offering more construction phases in various projects.
Not only did developers unveil sales increase but also, they, as always, kept competing for acquiring more land plots in different new urban areas offered by the government in a way confirming the firms' tendency to expand their land portfolio and launch more projects. The market also witnesses the entry of new players every day.
Through a deep insight into the prospects of real estate sector in Egypt, four challenges facing the sector can be identified. First, how the sector operates under new regulations after being implemented on the ground. These regulations contain highly important provisions to protect all parties and ensure seriousness.
The second challenge is relating to compensations obtained by those affected in the sector including buyers, developers and contractors and whether these compensations are fairly paid to ensure the rights of all parties.
The third challenge is the operationalization of property export file that captured the attention of the government remarkably for many years. This attention is also paid by both property developing and marketing firms as an effective tool to increase sales and attract important customer segments to take advantage of the current level of national currency.
The fourth challenge has to do with how to diversify and offer various financing solutions to developers through banking loans or secondary financing instruments such as securitization bonds, portfolios sale as well as mortgage finance.

4 Challenges Shape Property Sector Prospects 2023

The 6th Real Estate Debate&nbsp;

The Fourth Real Estate Debate Conference is held this year under the motto: "Growth Catalysts 2020". The event comes in the context of many changes on which real estate developers are betting.
This includes the Ministry of Housing's approval for non-competitive contracts in state-owned land offers, under predetermined rules and pricing, as well as construction plans for new cities, such as the New Alamein City, which has gained special significance over the past period. Further, the New Administrative Capital is set to start a new phase of rapid growth as it will receive 50,000 employees early in 2020.
The conference discusses how to exploit the new cities boom, and marketing strategies to place Egypt on the target map of Arab and foreign investors.
The Fourth Real Estate Debate Conference will complete first-time discussions, initiated
two years ago in Egypt, on measures taken to implement 'Property Exportation Strategy'. The conference will examine how to revitalize mortgage finance models in Egypt to serve its irreplaceable role in terms of stimulating demand among various customer
segments. The Conference also focuses on discussing challenges and bottlenecks impeding the
real estate sector from moving forward to create the desired boom...

"Growth Catalysts 2020"

The 4th Real Estate Debate&nbsp;

The 3rd Real Estate debate 2018 conference is held this year under the slogan &ldquo;Property Export Strategy ... What has been done and what is required?&rdquo;&nbsp;
The event is a complement to the momentum created by the 2nd Real Estate Debate conference held last year under the slogan &ldquo;Ambitious Strategy for Exporting Real Estate &ldquo;the last Conference adopted many recommendations and some of them were implemented by the government last year. However, there is much to be done to benefit from the enormous opportunities provided by real estate sector, whose market size exceeds USD 250 Billion a year&nbsp;
The conference examines actions undertaken by the government, led by the ministry of housing, including issuance of real property registration law No. 37 of 2018 and minister of interior decision on the permissibility of residence of foreign nationals in case of owning a property or more as well as to what extent these actions have helped stimulate external demand for Egyptian real estate&nbsp;
The convention focuses on financing and promotion approaches needed to the successful property export market through developing an integrated perspective by the private sector in collaboration with the relevant government actors as well as developing an integrated approach to resolve the problems facing property developers.

Property Export Strategy ... What has been done and what is required?

The 3rd Real Estate Debate&nbsp;

The Real Estate Debate 2017 will try to develop an ambitious and integrated Strategy for exporting Egyptian property so that Egypt can garb a share of the great opportunities in this branch of business with goal market of US $250 billion a year
Many economic sectors would gain momentum in case the strategy is adopted and implemented. Not only the closely relevant activities such as real estate development contacting building materials production and furniture industry that would achieve tangible gains but also tourism cultural activities ect.
This would resonate positively in the economy with creation of thousands of jobs and inflows of billions of dollars of investments
The strategy that the conference hopes to elaborate will involve removing all obstacles impeding Egypt from access to the international market of real estate exports. It will urge all and various parties to undertake their responsibility so as to contribute to pushing forward the real estate industry and the Egyptian economy to objective goals. &nbsp;

Ambitious Strategy for Exporting Real Estate&nbsp;

The 02nd Real Estate Debate Conference&nbsp; 2017

The Real Estate Debate Conference provides a significant opportunity to large players in the development industry to discuss their goals, business plans and demands, stretching from legislation required to stimulate activity to projections on real estate prices. Participants will tackle several issues with major impacts on the industry's activity, including the impact of foreign currency shortage and various government tenders (middle and low - income housing, construction land, etc.)&nbsp; Other key issues, which form major obstacles to the industry's expansion, such as registration, state - sponsored competition and supply of utilities, will also be revisited.&nbsp;