In the 100 years since the signing in secret of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that aimed to carve the Middle East between Great Britain and France, the region has played a central stage in global politics and the world economy.
A strategic area at the conflux of Europe and Asia, the discovery in the first half of the 20th Century of vast petroleum reserves beneath its previously barren deserts has seen enormous wealth flood into the region and with it an explosion in the numbers of wealthy Arabs seeking advice from the wealth management sector.
