| While the sukuk or the Islamic bond market has been growing rapidly with increasing number of large and liquid issues, the depth of the financial market, especially in the GCC, is not at the level of the developed countries or at a level some global fund managers would ideally like it to be. For that to happen, global asset manager Franklin Templeton Investments believes that the policy makers should concentrate their efforts at developing non-banking financial services.
While acknowledging that liquidity has been on an improving trend, Mohieddine Kronfol, chief investment officer, Global Sukuk and Mena Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton Investments, clearly would like to see policy makers in the Gulf and Malaysia do more to promote money, debt and sukuk markets to have more liquidity going forward...............................................Full Article: Source
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