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Sarwa Halal Portfolios Review (2026): Smooth, Sensible, Not Cheap
The UAE's first robo-advisor builds clean halal portfolios from Islamic ETFs, a sukuk fund and gold, with $800m+ under management. The structure works; the 0.85% fee and the missing Shariah board deserve scrutiny.
Ghina, Kunooz and the Million-Dirham Draw: Do UAE Prize Savings Accounts Add Up?
ADIB pays 5.25% plus prize draws. Emirates Islamic pays 0.10% plus a monthly million. The two prize-linked savings models in the UAE could not be more different, and only one of them respects your base rate.
DIB vs ADIB (2026): Which Islamic Giant Deserves Your Salary?
The world's first Islamic bank against Abu Dhabi's first. DIB prints its deposit rates and hides its savings rate; ADIB prints its savings rate and hides its financing rates. The head-to-head, on the published record.
Emirates Islamic Review (2026): The Bank That Shows Its Numbers
Eight quarters of actual declared profit rates, financing prices printed in flat and reducing form, and an early-exit formula on the page. Emirates Islamic is the UAE's transparency leader. The rates themselves are more mixed.
Al Hilal Bank Review (2026): A Licensed Islamic Bank Behind a Neobank App
Founded by the Abu Dhabi government, bought by ADCB, relaunched as a pure app. Al Hilal pays up to 5.1% expected on savings and hides almost nothing in its fee schedule. The catches are campaign gates and a quiet card repricing.
Halal Investing in the UAE (2026): The Honest State of Play
The UAE finally has a real halal investing market: sovereign sukuk from AED 4,000, three robo platforms, and a national Mudarabah scheme with published fatwas. Here is what we verified, what it costs, and where the gaps are.
National Bonds Review (2026): The Benchmark for Halal Saving in the UAE
Government-owned, fatwa-publishing, AED 18 billion strong, and still coy about forward rates. Our full review of the UAE's national Mudarabah savings institution and its 20-product shelf.
StashAway Shariah Portfolios Review (2026): The New Price Benchmark
No minimum, fees from 0.2% to 0.8%, four risk levels and the most honest compliance language in the market. StashAway's August 2025 launch reset the cost of managed halal investing in the UAE.
baraka Review (2026): Halal Screening Inside a Conventional Brokerage
baraka gives GCC investors 20,000+ US assets with an AAOIFI-aligned screener labelling 1,500+ as halal, from $1 a trade. The tooling is the best in the region. The temptations sit one tap away.