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Alwaleed's Kingdom, on prowl for acquisitions, plans hotel sale

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will hold onto his most high-profile investments, which range from stakes in Citigroup and News Corp to microblogging site Twitter, while seeking out new targets to diversify his global portfolio.Kingdom Holding <4280.SE>, Alwaleed's investment vehicle, has asked investment banks to identify possible acquisition targets around the world and plans to sell its stake in 20-30 hotels in the next two years, he told Reuters on Monday."We have talked with certain investment banks to look at opportunities that we may have not seen in our region. This is in motion right now," said Alwaleed, who owns 95 percent of Kingdom, in an interview in Riyadh on Monday."We intentionally try to be diversified by location and by industry so we won't have much concentration in one arena."Kingdom Holding, which went public in 2007, has a market value of around $17 billion, making it one of the largest listed investment firms in the Middle East.Alwaleed, a nephew of K...

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