Islamic finance
New investment platforms and technological advances are changing the work of investment professionals and transforming investment paradigms.
There is much potential for Islamic finance to promote sustainable economic development through such approaches as widening access to finance (including microfinance), financing infrastructure projects, and expanding the reach of takaful (Islamic insurance).
Volker Nienhaus sees Islamic law's restrictions on interest-bearing instruments and speculative practices as an opportunity to establish a competitive advantage.
Adeel Malik from the University of Oxford and Bassem Awadallah, founder and CEO of Tomoh Advisory, analyse the deep roots of the relative economic failure of the wider Arab world.
In an interview at the kickoff of the fourth annual CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference, CFA Society Emirates President, Yacoub Nuseibeh, CFA, discusses issues on the minds of investment professionals in the region.
CFA Institute has released the results of a survey that gauges opinions on the key issues currently facing investment markets in the Middle East and North Africa.
Professor Ibrahim Warde of Tufts University discusses Islamic finance with Usman Hayat, CFA. Professor Warde will be speaking at the Fourth Annual CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference
Dubai is aiming to become a world leader in Islamic finance, and delegates to the Fourth Annual CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference will have a firsthand opportunity to learn more about economic developments in the MENA region.
Tarek El Diwany believes the core value proposition of Islamic Finance is to bring ethics to the center of finance and when this is achieved, everyone stands to gain.
Tarek El Diwany, a speaker at the upcoming CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference and Islamic Finance specialist, discusses the conflict between discounting and ecological sustainability.