This article was written in collaboration with Lucia La and was originally published in Carey The Torch blog on 18 July 2019. On April 18, 2019, a group of thirteen students and staff traveled to New York City for the second annual career trek organized by the Carey Real Estate Investment Association (CREIA). The two-day event was filled with…
This article was originally published in Carey The Torch blog on 8 May 2019. In 2017, I decided to continue my education and get my long-overdue graduate degree, as I felt my career had plateaued. I began searching for schools and programs. For more than 11 years until that point, I had nurtured a broadly defined investment…
This article was originally published in Carey The Torch blog on 15 January 2019. Recently, I had a chat with a fellow student over coffee about our experience in school and plans for the future. She inquired about careers in the capital market and wanted to hear my story, knowing that I have experience in…
I stumbled upon a TED talk the other day, and it resonates with me all too well. An award-winning author, Emilie Wapnick, presented her talk on “multipotentialite.” Put it simply, a multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. Maybe it will be clearer if she explains it directly. I always have difficulty focusing…
[This article is a continuation of Part 1. Part 2 was posted on 2 November 2016 on the Islamic Banker website. Note: IslamicBanker.com changed to IslamicMarkets.com in April 2018.] Real Estate Investment Trust is known in Indonesian regulation terminology as “Dana Investasi Real Estate” or abbreviated nicely as DIRE (read: dee-ray or dē-rā). DIRE is…
[I received a call from Shakeeb Saqlain, CEO of IslamicBanker.com, back in October 2016, asking my permission to post a redacted version of my paper – Islamic ETF as a waqf asset – on the Islamic Banker website. The first part of the article was posted on 22 October 2016. Note: IslamicBanker.com changed to IslamicMarkets.com…