About Shashi S. Piptan
Global Investment Advisor
Shashi S. Piptan is a global investment advisor and author. His writing looks at how capital moves across borders and asset classes, and what long-horizon investors should do differently as the world changes.
This site brings together his writing in series. The Land Banking Series looks at land as an asset class and at the strategic rise of land banking. UAE Infra is a special series on infrastructure investment in the UAE: it opens with a feature series on his new book about Dubai, followed by series on other parts of the country. The Article Series opens with “The post-2025 global economy”, ninety articles across ten themes, and new series will be added to it as they are published.
He is also the author of Dubai’s Urban Evolution: A Blueprint for Infrastructure Investment, launching very soon.
- Land as an asset classWhy land deserves a deliberate place in a modern portfolio, and how land banking works as an investment discipline.
- UAE infrastructure investmentHow roads, rail, ports, utilities and urban expansion shape long-term value in the Emirates, in the UAE Infra series.
- The global economy after 2025Artificial intelligence, geopolitics, monetary change, energy, demographics, and the risks that connect them.
- Investor mindsetFrameworks for patient, first-principles decision-making under uncertainty.