At the Fixed Income Alternatives Conference in Dubai on 4 November 2026, our Founder & Chairman Ahmad Saidali joined Roundtable 2, “The New LP-GP Compact: Capital, Alignment & Access in Alternative Fixed Income.”
He was joined by Benedetta Balducci, Head of Private Market Strategy, State Street Investment Management; Sheikh Muhammad Noman, Founder & CEO, Pegasus Capital Investments; and Stergios Voskopoulos, Founder & CEO, AltNovel. Todd Anderson, Head of Content & Programming, DealCatalyst, moderated.
Two hundred apartments, one market
Ahmad used an example close to our own business. An owner of two hundred apartments across Dubai, in different towers, communities and developments, is protected if one building has a problem. Every unit still depends on the same market. A lending fund of two hundred borrowers who all repay from their own profits works the same way: one mechanism, repeated two hundred times.
That is why he looks at finance repaid by the asset itself, from equipment, receivables or rent, which can keep paying in a year when profits do not.
For a family, the diversification that counts is the source of repayment. We apply that test to every property portfolio we advise on.
Cash, liquidity and the family calendar
He also reminded the room that families pay their expenses in cash, not in accrued income. Our advice starts with a family’s cash calendar over several years, covering spending, capital calls, property commitments and support for the operating business, and sizes every long-term holding for what the family can bear in a difficult year.
Our thanks to DealCatalyst and DIFC for convening a conference of this calibre.
Redwood Heritage Real Estate is a Dubai property advisory and brokerage firm (RERA ORN 40504) and part of Redwood Heritage Group, headquartered in Dubai with a presence in Geneva and Zurich.
The firm advises families, family offices and international investors on Dubai property as part of their wider wealth: acquisition, structuring, residency and long term stewardship. Its Founder & Chairman, Ahmad Saidali, brings a background in Swiss private banking, fund structuring, cross-border wealth advisory and multi-asset portfolio construction.
