12 Jan 09 Marketplace’s Take on Islamic Finance
They specifically reference the Amana Funds at the 35min mark. We’ll address them in a later post. In the meantime, listen to this NPR broadcast of Marketplace (March 7, 2008) and share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you.
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Tags: amana funds, Islamic Finance, marketplace, Mutual Funds, npr
10 Jan 09 Karen Armstrong TED Talk Prize Winner
Wonderful talk by Karen Armstrong. For anyone who hasn’t read any of her books or listened to her lectures, take a look.
Tags: islam, karen armstrong, lecture, ted
09 Jan 09 The Future of Ethical Finance
Interesting interview with Anas Eltikriti at Islam Expo in Britain. Some of the concerns that we have as Muslims is reverberating across many social circles around this notion of ethical finance. Many people believe that our current financial crisis would not have occurred had people and institutions been acting ethically. I’m not so sure. (more…)
Tags: britain, ethical finance, islam, muslim expo
07 Jan 09 HSBC and Their Islamic Banking Products
This is not an endorsement!
A bit of HSBC marketing describing their activity. I’m going to be taking a deeper dive analyzing their products and how their products are ‘Islamic’. Interesting stuff.
Tags: Banking, financial products, hsbc, islam
07 Jan 09 Altruism Does Payoff
Andy Liu has a very interesting post on how you can achieve financial success. His prescription is to donate money to social causes. In Islam we have Zakah and Sadaqah. Zakah is the obligatory 2.5% of your wealth accumulated over a lunar year and Sadaqah is anything your conscience has allowed you to impart with in the path of charity.
Definitely a noteworthy prescription for any investor or entrepreneur. More comments about this post later.
