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

  Rédigé par Hanan Ben Rhouma | Mardi 5 Avril 2011 La semaine du halal en Malaisie démarre fort. A l’occasion du World Halal Forum 2011 qui a débuté lundi 4 avril à Kuala Lumpur, un indice boursier uniquement dédié à l’industrie agro-alimentaire halal a été lancé. Tel un mastodonte, la Malaisie s’impose définitivement comme le leader de ce marché,

    Reuniting the ‘twins separated at birth’ April 4, 2011 QUESTION: How did the idea of a halal food index come about?A:I was looking to expand the bandwidth of Islamic investing, and saw the industry looking at Islamic hedge funds and other turbo-charged instruments which the “Muslim man in the street” can neither relate to nor access. The question