Sohail Jaffer is a Partner and Head of International Business Development for “private label” bancassurance with the FWU group based in Dubai. FWU is an international financial services group focusing on innovative and customised product design in the field of unit-linked investments and family takaful savings plans for several Emerging Markets. Mr. Jaffer has successfully originated, negotiated and won several major bancassurance deals in the GCC region, Pakistan and Malaysia.

He has written extensively on alternative investments and has edited several Euromoney publications on hedge funds, multi-manager strategies, Investing in the MENA region as well as six books in the Euromoney Islamic finance series including Retail banking, Asset management, Takaful, Wealth management, Investment banking, Sukuk, and a CPI publication on investing in the GCC markets.

Mr Jaffer is a speaker at several international industry events and is currently leading the activities of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) in the Middle East and is also a participant member in the Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association.