Securities Group

Securities Group

Founded October 24, 1981, Securities Group Company is a Kuwaiti shareholding investment management firm that traces its roots to the early era of institutional asset management in the Gulf. It was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in December 1996 and remained public for more than two decades before delisting on June 18, 2017. The firm now operates as a private entity from its headquarters in Sharq, Kuwait, serving external clients rather than a single family. The firm describes its core activity as investment advisory and portfolio management for clients in Kuwait. It reports assets under management of approximately KD 2 billion. The firm's mandate is generalist, covering public equities and other assets, though it does not publicly break out allocations by strategy, stage, or geography. Its website highlights compliance with Capital Markets Authority corporate governance rules as a defining operational feature, suggesting a posture built around regulated, discretionary mandates rather than proprietary deal-making. Securities Group maintains a lean public footprint. The firm's website lists no named investment professionals, no portfolio companies, and no specific deals. Its LinkedIn presence points back to the same corporate site. This opacity is consistent with a firm that operates as a local, relationship-driven investment manager for Kuwait-based capital, where disclosure norms differ from large Western allocators. Structurally, the firm's shift from a listed entity to a private shareholding company in 2017 is its most notable governance event. The delisting removed public-market disclosure obligations and may have simplified decision-making for its client portfolios. Beyond this, the firm's architecture — a standalone Kuwaiti investment manager regulated by the CMA — distinguishes it from the family offices and sovereign entities that more commonly populate the Gulf's asset-management landscape.