Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) recorded a 54% year-on-year rise in assets under management in the first half of 2026. Active licences across the centre climbed to almost 14,000.
The number of fund and asset managers based in ADGM rose 23% to 190, while funds managed from the centre grew 32% to 276.
Asset managers that set up in ADGM during the period collectively oversee more than US$2.1 trillion in global assets, the centre said.
Financial services entities operating in ADGM grew 27% to 392, with the Financial Services Regulatory Authority issuing 50 in-principle approvals and 45 financial services permissions.
New entrants included Capital Group, Man Group, Bain Capital and digital asset firms Bitexen MENA and Bitexen Custody.
Institutions based in ADGM now manage more than US$100 billion in AI-focused capital, anchored by MGX, the AI infrastructure investment platform licensed by the FSRA.
The concentration extends to AI-enabled platforms such as RIQ, the reinsurance venture backed by IHC, BlackRock and Lunate, which has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss Re on AI-enabled reinsurance.
ADGM has also deployed AI across 25 of its own business functions, cutting manual workload by more than 5,000 staff hours a year, and plans to invest more than AED 400 million in technology through 2029.
ADGM’s workforce grew 34% to 49,027 professionals in the same period.
“The scale of growth we are witnessing across capital, institutions, businesses and talent,”
said Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi, Chairman of ADGM.
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