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Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... Corporate Finance. Gulf Finance House is a Middle Eastern Islamic investment bank founded in 1999, offering a variety of Sharia'a compliant products across private equity, venture capital, asset management and development infrastructure. Over the past ...

FLEXCUBE helps London and Middle East

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... OracleA(R) FLEXCUBE Private Banking in less than four months. Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking will enable the bank to offer Sharia'a compliant products and services as part of its wealth management offerings. The solution is integrated with the bank's ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Islamic finance market has grown by as much as 20 per cent each year for the past six years and is now a $700 billion plus industry, according to State Street. The firm's latest Vision Report on the subject estimated that total assets under management ...

Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... international Shariah managers by offering tax incentives, among others. While Malaysia's interest in setting up as an Asian-based Sharia investment hub in competeition to Saudi Arabia may seem ambitious, analysts have reported there are more Muslims ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Shariah-compliant hedge funds could outperform their traditional hedge fund counterparts this year, predicts Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research at Thomson Reuters Lipper. Gentilini said that Shariah-compliant hedge funds stand to ...

Islamic funds zone in on Malaysia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
Australian investors monitoring the boom of Islamic funds management should look across the seas to Malaysia, which recently approved three international financial firms to set up shop in the country. The Securities Commission (SC) has approved the ...

Allianz opens Mid East office and funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
Allianz Global Investors is opening an office in Bahrain and launching two Shariah compliant equity funds to extend its investment and product distribution capabilities to the oil rich countries of the Middle East. The Bahrain based Allianz office will ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Standard and Poor's has launched three new Shariah law-compliant indices, targeting infrastructure, healthcare and large-midcap stocks. The three indices are the S&P Global Infrastructure Shariah, S&P Global Healthcare Shariah, and S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap ...

Charles River key IT for Islamic funds

... screening and compliance procedures onto their portfolios. This is particularly useful for any ethically-based funds including Sharia'ah-compliant funds, which must conform to the teachings of Islam. For example, Malaysia-based CIMB-Principal Asset Management ...

Intrinsic finds value in Islamic investing

Intrinsic Investment Management hopes to address the needs of Muslim-Australian investors through an investment product that satisfies Shariah Law, a code of principles that many Muslims follow as part of their faith. Intrinsic's managing director Glenn ...