DUBAI—Russian and Asian executives and midlevel Western bankers will attend a Saudi Arabian investment conference this week that will be less splashy and global than its inaugural last year dubbed “Davos in the Desert.”Hundreds of Saudi officials and advisers are rushing to salvage the Future Investment Initiative, known as FII, as Western executives canceled in the wake of revelations that the kingdom’s operatives killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. It is an important project...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 21, 2018 20:15 UTC