Growing Sukuk investment opportunities

Increasing Demand for Sukuk issues among issuers from Muslim
countries as well as other jurisdictions
• Islamic financial institutions are seeking to diversify their portfolio
and increase their portfolio size of tradable instruments with fixed
income profile
• Sukuk can be used to create Sukuk funds for retail distribution
• Once Sukuk Fund concept become more popular demand for Sukuk
issues will surge exponentially
• Sukuk can be developed into a Money Market instrument
• Sukuk can play a major role in the development of Islamic Inter-
Bank or Short term Islamic Finance market
• Appetite for Sukuk among Reserve Managers and non-bank
financial institutions increasing
– Central banks, state fund managers, insurance & takaful companies,
are keen to invest in Sukuk issues as seen in all the sovereign sukuk
issues.
– Islamic FI’s and also Western FI’s