Sohail Jaffer
Group Partner & Head of IBD
FWU
Sohail Jaffer is a Partner and Head of International Business Development for “white label” Bancassurance and investment services within the FWU Group, an international financial services group focusing on innovative and customised product design in the field of unit-linked investments and family takaful investment-linked plans for international 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 member of the Asset Management Advisory Committee, the Middle East Working Group and the Hedge Fund Committee of ALFI.
He is also a member of LFF Islamic Finance Working Group.