
Mohammed Ali Yasin
CEO of Ghaf Benefits (a Lunate company) and veteran of UAE capital markets, formerly CEO of Shuaa Securities and FAB Securities.
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Nov 6, 2026
EV Charging and the Expat Retirement Trap
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Tom UrquhartHOST
Surely, with all those warnings that we've given down the years, it's not the case now, or is it?

Mohammed Ali YasinGUEST
Let me start by saying, Tom, that pension and end of service are, in a way, they lead to the same objective, but they're different.

Mohammed Ali YasinGUEST
Pensions, when people talk about pensions, expats in the UAE, there's no something called pension.

Mohammed Ali YasinGUEST
So what do you have for the expats? You have the end of service or the gratuity system, which you have.

Mohammed Ali YasinGUEST
And that is calculated based on the time that you've been working with the company.
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Tom UrquhartHOST
How much would that and could that potentially affect a traditional gratuity if your money is being used on the markets?
V-FM Pensions #166: A UAE special with Mohammed Ali Yasin
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Nico AspinallHOST
But yeah, so tell us a bit about your role and then we'll come back to sort of how your career, let's say

Mohammed Ali YasinGUEST
I started here in the brokerage in the UAE before the market was established.
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Nico AspinallHOST
So presumably, does the employer, do you set the default investments or does the employer kind of choose which of the six parts, which of the six investment strategies?