Authors

Eric Güller
Stefan Leins

Research organisation

Credit Suisse

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Islamic Finance - Combining Faith-Based Values and Financial Returns

Report Date

November 2010

Release Date

January 2011

Document summary

One of the world’s fastest-growing business segments with a compound growth rate of 26% between 2004-2009 Islamic Finance attracts investors on a global scale, but there is still a shortage of knowledge about a branch that seeks to combine modern finance and religion-based moral standards. Islamic Finance is the reconciliation of financial needs with the Islamic legal practice of Sharia, which excludes interest-bearing, speculation and immoral business branches from its investment approach. The Islamic Finance industry has developed a number of new investment opportunities in recent years and Islamic investors are now able to benefit from a broad investment universe.