Thank you to the Rotary Club of Jakarta Batavia for inviting me to talk. I will use the opportunity to give my first Climate Reality presentation. The talk will be on November 1, 2020, if you’d like to join as it will be virtual. Rotary Club of Jakarta Batavia (RCJB) was my prior philanthropic and…
Attending SOCAP 2018 This article was originally published in Carey The Torch blog on 19 February 2019. In October 2018, I attended Social Capital (SOCAP) 2018, held in San Francisco. More than 3,000 participants joined the event. This was the 11th SOCAP held since its founding in 2007, but it was my first. The conference’s tagline of “at…
[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…
Today, on 7 June 2009, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe in 24 times zone walk together to raise funds and awareness for United Nations World Food Programme’s work to end child hunger. The event is named ‘Walk the World’, one of the most significant global events against hunger. The WFP walk in…
Continuing with my retirement portfolio building, I’ve been thinking of dividing the portfolio into five asset allocation themes. I could have gotten away with only two of them (core equity and core debt), but where’s the fun? The five themes are as follow: Core Equity Holding – Geographic This theme will act as the core…