Authors
Eric Güller, Stefan Leins
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.