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Bahrain Fund Mumtalakat Open to McLaren IPO

Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund, Mumtalakat, remains open to an initial public offering of McLaren Group Ltd., though it isn’t in a rush to sell its controlling stake in the supercar maker and Formula One racing team.
“When we think it’s the right time, we’ll go” for an IPO, said Mahmood Al Kooheji, chief executive officer of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Co. “We’re a happy investor in McLaren.”
While U.K.-based McLaren will be affected by the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, it will need to “redefine a solution for it,” Al Kooheji said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in Manama, Bahrain. “Life goes on.”
McLaren is Mumtalakat’s biggest investment in Europe. Aston Martin and Bentley Motors have been making arrangements to do what they can to avoid problems with their supply chains as British Prime Minister Theresa May considers a plan to delay Brexit and stop the U.K. leaving the European Union with no deal next month.
Looking Ahead
The Bahrain fund is confident 2019 will be a better year, Al Kooheji said. The fund has been seeking to diversify away from the Middle East where it holds 63 percent of its $15.4 billion portfolio. About 29 percent of its holdings are in Europe, while North America accounts for 8 percent.
Al Kooheji also said:
Asia is a “very interesting area” and the fund is keen to invest there Turning a profit on Gulf Air isn’t a priority as “it’s a bridge that’s serving the economy.”Gulf Air can become profitable but it would come at the expense of connectivity needed by Bahrain’s business community
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