About Us

Guidance Financial Group is one of the few financial organizations in the world addressing the needs of housing finance consumers and institutional investors for high-quality and principled financial services and investment solutions.

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Global Products & Services

Guidance is a pioneer in the creation of values-based residential mortgages, secondary market housing finance solutions, and investment products and services for institutional investors.

Opportunities for Investors & Partners

Guidance offers investors, clients and global partners meaningful opportunities to participate in principles-based financial solutions in the housing finance and investment markets. We bring innovative products, deep management experience, an extensive institutional investment network, and a respected Shariah Supervisory Board.

Principled Finance

Guidance gives consumers, industry participants and institutional investors the ability to act upon their principled values through the financial services and investment solutions that we provide on a global basis.

Management

Guidance's worldwide team brings extensive experience, expertise and accomplishment in the fields of economics, finance, investment/operating business management, Islamic finance, research and development and pioneering product creation.

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Dr Hashim, based in Kuala Lumpur, is a Senior Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors of Guidance Investments having previously served as the Head of Product Development and Institutional Business with Guidance Financial Group and CEO of Guidance Investments. She has 24 years of financial management experience in the field of asset management, structured finance and asset securitization and is one of the pioneers in Islamic investment banking. In 1998, she founded IslamiQ, the world’s first online Islamic finance portal. From 1994 to 1998, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Commerce MGI Sdn Bhd (CMGI), Malaysia, which successfully closed mandates of US$1 billion in Islamic financing under her leadership, and a member of the Management Committee and Relationship Director of First Islamic Investment Bank, Bahrain. From 1992 to 1994, Dr Hashim was a senior portfolio manager with Rashid Hussain Asset Management, a premier asset management company in Malaysia, where she had funds under management of US$200 million and where she was also actively involved in product development, including Islamic equity products. Dr Hashim holds a BS in Physics from Surrey University and a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Oxford University. She is also an associate of the Institute of Actuaries, Staple Inn, London.