Real Estate Investment Association Leads 2nd Annual Trek to NYC
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Real Estate Investment Association Leads 2nd Annual Trek to NYC

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…

Why I Chose to Pursue a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure (MSREI) Degree at the Carey Business School
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Why I Chose to Pursue a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure (MSREI) Degree at the Carey Business School

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…

Careers in the Capital Market, an Insider’s Perspective
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Careers in the Capital Market, an Insider’s Perspective

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…

The Multipotentiality of Me
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The Multipotentiality of Me

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…

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Islamic REITs as an Investment Asset for Waqf Management in Indonesia – Part 2

[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…

Islamic REITs as an Investment Asset for Waqf Management in Indonesia – Part 1
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Islamic REITs as an Investment Asset for Waqf Management in Indonesia – Part 1

[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…