Who publishes Universal Asset Owners
The people responsible for our reporting, research and multimedia work — and the network of contributors who extend it.
Leadership
Tim Peters
Founder and Publisher
Founder and publisher of Universal Asset Owners. A long-term investor and former officer of public companies (including Enghouse Systems, TSX: ENGH), he serves on the board of the Canadian Hero Fund and leads its investment committee. He is also an LP and trusted advisor to international investment funds.
Contributors
Lara Sabri
Contributing Journalist
Lara is a Dubai-based journalist and a contributing journalist at Universal Asset Owners, reporting on Gulf capital, sovereign wealth and the institutions shaping long-term investment across the Middle East.
Dan Agbo
Contributing Journalist — Africa
Nigeria-based contributing journalist covering African capital — sovereign wealth, mining and critical minerals, and the cross-border flows shaping the continent's role in global allocation.
Zubina Ahmed
Contributing Journalist
Zubina Ahmed is a multimedia journalist and reporter for CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster. Over a career spanning the Middle East, India and Canada, she has reported on business, markets and public affairs for outlets including CNBC, Khaleej Times, Gulf Business and CNN-IBN. She is a contributing journalist at Universal Asset Owners.
Nicolás Bohórquez
Contributing Journalist — The Americas
Bogotá-based bilingual investigative journalist covering the Americas — where political shifts, capital flows and strategic resources intersect, and how regional instability reshapes access to critical assets.
Obaid ur Rehman
Contributing Journalist — South & Central Asia
Obaid ur Rehman is a contributing journalist at Universal Asset Owners, covering geopolitics, China's strategic expansion, and the South and Central Asian capital corridors that increasingly define long-term institutional risk.
Antoine Tigneres
Macroeconomic Analyst and Financial Writer
Macroeconomic analyst and financial writer specialising in institutional intelligence for universal asset owners. Previously a Strategic Intelligence Analyst for the French Ministry of Economy and the French Embassy in Brazil, focused on cross-border capital flows and critical infrastructure bottlenecks.
Manoj Sharma
Contributing Journalist — South & Southeast Asia
Journalist and content strategist with 14 years of experience across newsrooms, boardrooms and broadcast studios. Published in Fortune India, Business Today and Hindustan Times. Covers sovereign wealth, institutional investing and global capital flows. Based in Dubai.
Omega Ukama
Financial Journalist & Researcher
Financial journalist and researcher covering economic policy, governance, infrastructure, and global market developments. Former investment analyst with a B.Tech. (Hons) in Financial Engineering.
Naveed Iqbal
Contributing Journalist — Digital Assets & Web3
Digital-assets and Web3 journalist covering cryptocurrency markets, blockchain infrastructure and tokenization since 2018. He reports on where digital assets intersect with institutional capital — custody, regulation, liquidity and market structure.
Syed Muhammad Fahad Wasim
Contributing Writer — Private Wealth & Asset Management
Fahad Wasim covers private wealth and asset management for Universal Asset Owners. A Bloomberg financial writer with an MSc in Finance from the National University of Singapore and research experience at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, he reports on family offices, sovereign capital and the forces reshaping long-term allocation across Asia.
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