Author: idealratings_admin

All the major index providers have a Shariah compliant offering, this started in the late nineties with Dow Jones debuting its Dow Jones Islamic Market Index℠ family, then FTSE Group developed the FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series, Standard & Poor’s...

Compliance, be it Shariah, green, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), has the same workflow since they all revolve a client requiring the elimination of certain investment vehicles based on certain criteria, and since these customer requirements have been around for...

In social responsible investments you only need to track whether companies are engaged in certain business or not, but in Shariah compliant investments you need to identify the investment constraints, including the value of good sold in a non allowed...

When Mohamed and I first looked at creating a screening service for the Islamic finance market, we thought it was a relatively simple problem that could be solved using mostly software and algorithms, the definition of a compliant company appeared...