Kuwait Investment Company

The Kuwait Investment Company was established in 1961 as the first investment company in Kuwait and the region, coming into existence as part of the comprehensive renaissance witnessed by the State of Kuwait in the second half of the twentieth century across all aspects of life. Since its inception, Kuwait Investment has played a fundamental role in supporting the economy of Kuwait both locally and regionally, being one of the leading national companies at both the local and regional levels.

The establishment of Kuwait Investment Company at the beginning of the 1960s, coinciding with Kuwait's independence in the same year, reflected an early vision by the political and economic leadership of the importance of supporting the country's economic development journey. Recognizing the role entrusted to it from its inception, Kuwait Investment has strived and largely succeeded in setting and implementing new standards for the emerging investment industry in Kuwait at the time, becoming a model to emulate in establishing and managing financial institutions on advanced foundations that keep pace with the spirit of the times and apply the highest global professional standards. Thus, Kuwait Investment Company is credited as being among the pioneering generation of companies that contributed to building the national economy and added momentum to its evolution.

Over more than half a century of its journey, Kuwait Investment has established traditions and methodologies that have left clear imprints on the investment industry locally and regionally. The company has recorded a history full of successes over the past years, overcoming many crises and difficult circumstances that the national economy has faced over the past fifty years, relying on the solid foundations it has laid, which granted it flexibility in facing crises and enabled it to overcome them with great competence. It has kept pace with the development of the national economy and grown with it, being both influenced by and influencing it.

Since its establishment until now, Kuwait Investment Company has achieved qualitative leaps in its performance, especially with the approval of its new strategic plan in 2013 and its implementation starting in 2014. This plan has contributed and will continue to contribute in the coming years to elevating its performance to new benchmark levels, within the context of its focus on maximizing profitability indicators, shareholder equity, and risk reduction.