INCREASINGLY, INSTITUTIONS DEVELOPING Shariah-compliant financial products are bringing sophistication and smart thinking to bear in their development of new products, whether for the individual retail investor or the corporate client. The challenge is in convincing the end investor that it’s legitimate to do so.
For the individual investor, the growth area is capital-protected products. For Middle Eastern investors bruised by choppy local stock markets, it’s understandable that there is a yearning for security.
HSBC, for example, launched its first Shariah-compliant capital-protected products four years ago and has built them based on different markets, for example, global equities or regional equities, and even specific sectors (a recent product focused on healthcare stocks).
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