​More than 50 global investors met seven of the Saudi Arabian stock market’s leading companies and senior Saudi government officials at the London Stock Exchange’s first Saudi Arabia Capital Markets Day, co-hosted by EFG Hermes Global investors interested in learning how they can directly invest in listed Saudi Arabian equities for the first time gathered on 12 June 2009, at the London Stock Exchange for the LSE’s first Saudi Arabia Capital Markets Day. London-based institutional investors, emerging market funds, analysts as well as members of the media had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with C-suite executives from some of the most interesting companies in Saudi Arabia, a market into which investors can now buy directly for the first time through swap agreements and participation notes introduced late last year. “There are some very attractively price opportunities in the Saudi market right now,” says Yasser El-Mallawany, Chief Executive Officer of EFG Hermes, the leading Arab investment bank and organizer of the Saudi Arabia Capital Markets Day. “Now that foreign investors can buy in through swap contracts, this is the perfect forum in which to start getting acquainted with top management at some of the kingdom’s most compelling companies.” This is the third in a series of events organized by EFG Hermes in partnership with the LSE. Previous capital markets days have focused on Egypt as well as the Middle East and North African banking and financial services sector. Companies presenting at the LSE included Al-Marai Co., Saudi Cable Company, Saudi Arabia Mining Company (Ma’aden), Saudi Telecom, Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate and Red Sea Housing Services. In addition to the LSE events, EFG Hermes also hosts its flagship annual EFG Hermes One-on-One in Sharm El-Sheikh, at which MENA companies present to top global investors; a MENA Trip covering dozens of companies across the region in just seven days; and regular field visits to companies across the Arab world.