Basil Al-Nakeeb

Basil Al-Nakeeb (b. 1949) is an independent scholar. He helped establish four investment banks and a consumer credit company. His investment career is diverse, spanning four decades and three continents, but mostly focused on stock investing. His last stock recommendation sent that stock limit up four days in a row. Although his career had a lesser focus on currencies, nevertheless, he successfully guided his research team to decompose the secret currency basket of the Kuwaiti Dinar, earning huge interest spreads for his employer. As part of his MSc. Dissertation in Financial Economics from University College of North Wales, he extended Leontief’s input-output matrix (for which Professor W. Leontief had received the Nobel Prize a year earlier) to optimize national investment plans. He also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He has written articles and given talks on economics and finance. He lives in Dubai with his wife and son.