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Panel

Flagship Panel I — Emerging-Market Investment through Private Equity, Sukuk, and ETFs

The instruments that actually move capital into growth markets

  • Friday, September 25, 2026
  • 9:45 – 10:45 AM
  • Room to be announced
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Overview

The flagship session examines the instruments through which institutional capital reaches emerging markets in practice: private equity and growth capital, sukuk and Shariah-compliant structures, and emerging-market ETFs — including what prevents scalable companies from receiving private-equity investment, and what structures create credible exit opportunities.

Discussion topics

  • Private equity and growth capital in emerging markets
  • Sukuk and infrastructure financing
  • Emerging-market and Shariah-compliant ETFs
  • Barriers to institutional investment
  • Credible exit structures

Speakers & moderator

Speakers:Professor M. Kabir Hassan
Moderator:Professor M. Kabir Hassan

Session sponsor: to be announced

Partners: to be announced

Chair and moderator — Professor Mohammad Kabir HassanProposedProf Baqui KhalilyProposedAdam Rezak, Aberdeen Investments — designation to be verifiedInvitedAdditional asset-management panellistsUnder discussion

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Preliminary programme and concept note — subject to confirmation. Speakers are classified as confirmed, invited or under discussion.

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