Posted on September 9, 2011 Investors with an eye on the Islamic world have witnessed parallel growth in two industries serving Muslims worldwide: halal products and Islamic finance. Halal — Arabic for “allowed” — signifies a product created in adherence with Islamic guidelines. Halal products are spread across several industries, including foodstuffs, cosmetics, fashion and health care. Islamic finance is

First Islamic Benchmarks Offering Research-Based Shariah Screening Based On Globally Accepted Standards London – Thomson Reuters and IdealRatings today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters IdealRatings Islamic Indices, the first Islamic benchmarks to offer research-based Shariah screening based on a globally accepted Shariah standard to investors, money managers and analysts across a range of Islamic instruments, resulting in the most

The Islamic Investor – June 2011 is out, click Here to check it out.

By Rushdi Siddiqui, Special to Gulf News, Published: April 18, 2011 Benchmark to be bridge-builder for Islamic and exchange-traded funds, sukuks and for non-Islamic investors Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (third from left), former prime minister of Malaysia, and Rushdi Siddiqui, global head of Islamic finance and OIC countries, Thomson Reuters, at the launch of Socially Acceptable Market Investments in Kuala Lumpur. Dubai:

“IdealRatings service empowers and enables Yasaar to provide top quality investment universe” San Francisco,USA-London, United Kingdom, April 5th, 2011 – Yasaar, a top leading global Sharia Advisor today announced that it has partnered with IdealRatings Inc., a global Sharia compliant fund management service provider to take full advantage of IdealRatings’ universe screening and Sharia compliant fund management service. Yasaar needed