MSCI Institutional Investor Forum - Kuwait
- Sept 15, 2026
- 12:00 p.m. AST - 3:00 p.m. AST
- Boursa Kuwait, Mubarak Al Kabeer Street, AlSharq, Kuwait P.O.Box 22235 Safat, 13083 Kuwait
The MSCI Institutional Investor Forum brings together senior investment professionals to explore the trends shaping global markets and portfolio decisions. This year, the Forum comes to Kuwait as one of four invitation-only gatherings across the Middle East, bringing together institutional investors from across the region.
We are delighted that Boursa Kuwait is kindly hosting this event, bringing together the region’s investment community for an afternoon of insight, exchange and discussion.
Explore how geopolitical change, AI and evolving market dynamics are reshaping investment decisions. Through expert-led sessions, discover practical approaches to portfolio construction, risk management and investment opportunities across public and private markets.
Gain the latest MSCI research, exchange perspectives with regional investment leaders, and hear keynote insights from Ashley Lester, Chief Research and Development Officer at MSCI, alongside specialists from across MSCI.
Together we will address
- Positioning for a Shifting World: Navigating AI, Geopolitics and the New Investment Paradigm
How AI and geopolitical change are reshaping investment opportunities, portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation. - Public Markets, Reimagined: Finding Alpha in a Changing Landscape
New sources of alpha through evolving market structure, factor insights and index innovation. - Private Markets in Focus: Turning Clearer Data into Better Decisions
Greater transparency across private capital: valuation, performance measurement and total-portfolio views that let allocators compare private and public exposures on consistent terms. - Materiality, Mapped: From Sustainability to Structural Exposure
How sustainability and climate data has correlated with financial performance across Gulf markets and beyond, and where new data on themes, locations and dependencies can broaden that view.
Agenda
12:00 p.m. ・ Registration
12:25 p.m. ・Welcome and opening remarks
Justin Kennedy-Lunde, MSCI
12:30 p.m. ・Positioning for a Shifting World: Navigating AI, Geopolitics and the New Investment Paradigm
Ashley Lester, Chief Research and Development Officer, MSCI
1:05 p.m. ・Public Markets, Reimagined: Finding Alpha in a Changing Landscape
Siebert Kruger, Head of Institutional Investment Research, MSCI
1:40 p.m.・Private Markets in Focus: Turning Clearer Data into Better Decisions
Uday Kari, Research & Development, MSCI
2:15 p.m. ・Materiality, Mapped: From Sustainability to Structural Exposure
Bentley Kaplan, Research & Development, MSCI
2:50 p.m. ・Closing remarks
2:55 p.m. Networking lunch


