Rising stars of the mutual fund industry

In a recent issue of Institutional Investor News (page 22), Monem Salam, the Director of Islamic Investing at the Amana Funds in Bellingham, Washington was named as one of the top 20 rising stars in the (entire) mutual fund industry. It is a credit both to him and to the Islamic mutual fund industry in the U.S. that the conventional mutual fund industry is beginning to take note of the growth in Islamic investing.