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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Mr Dodwell, based in Washington, DC, is a Senior Vice President at Capital Guidance with 23 years of experience. His responsibilities cover two main areas: corporate/business development in the company’s wholly-owned operating businesses and overall management of a portfolio of liquid and alternative financial investments. Instrumental in the founding and expansion of Guidance Investments, where he serves as COO, Mr Dodwell has been involved in all aspects of the group’s Shariah-compliant investments and operations in the financial services, housing finance, real estate, leasing, and private equity investment sectors. In addition, he manages the group’s portfolio of over 50 funds in the equity, fixed income, credit and private equity markets throughout the US, Europe and Asia. He also oversees all back office functions including risk monitoring, currency hedging, portfolio rebalancing, cash flow budgeting and reporting. In 1996, he was a founding member and Managing Director at Marconi Pacific, a strategy and venture consulting firm, and prior to that, he was a senior manager at GapGemini. Mr Dodwell holds a BA and MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.