Ng Adam Boon Ka; Choudhary Wajahat Naeem Azmi; Ginanjar Dewandaru; Ruslan Nagayev (2016)
Sustainability trends present risks and opportunities for companies and various stakeholders. Profits can be derived from doing good: Islamic sustainability equity in vesting offers competitive risk-return profiles at the levels of individual asset and portfolio of global assets particularly during economic expansion, equity bullish and subprime crisis periods. Islamic finance industry should proactively drive main stream sustainability investing.
The Quran relates the story of Prophet Joseph who was a master in interpreting dreams. When the King of Egypt saw in his dream that there were seven lean cows eating seven fat cows and that there were seven green ears of corn and seven others that withered, Prophet Joseph said there will be seven years of prosperity to be followed by seven years of famine. What was mentioned in the Quran which happened thousands of years ago, is still being repeated until the present day. What is obvious is that each recession was more severe than the previous one.
