Malaysian Bond and Sukuk Conference 2019
In order to plan for sustainable future of capital markets, MARC and Amanie have worked together to bring this conference to the centre stage of the industry. It was officiated by YB Dato' Wira Ir. Haji Amiruddin Hamzah, the Deputy Finance Minister of Malysia. It was kindly hosted by SIDC.
The event took place from 28 to 29 November 2019. We are grateful to all the sponsors, speakers and panelists and the participants who stayed all the way until the end. We hope that the event was meaningful and insightful.
From my own assessment, the themes that hit the interest of most are retail bond and sukuk in Malaysia (relative to our neighboring countires), SDG based bond and sukuk, the leaderhsip of Malaysia in sukuk issuances, Samurai bond of Malaysian government and financial inclusion, to a name a few.
In the last panel dicussion of the whole event just before Friday prayer yesterday, I stressed on both smart connectivity and buidling the trust to build for sustainable future of wealth creation, wealth transfer and wealth distribution. The journey is still a long way to go.
Without creating new wealth, there is no meaning of wealth sharing. If people have no excess or surplus of wealth, there is no investment in the first place. This may explain why in many collective schemes of investment by rakyat (general public), only a small fraction of bottom income earning segment of the community invested. The amount of investment has been so little too. Good for serious thinking over the weekends.
Happy weekend.
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