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The UAE's Quiet Gratuity Revolution: DEWS, Golden Pension and What Comes Next
Without a single headline reform, the UAE is dismantling the unfunded gratuity model: DIFC first, then a national savings institution, then a federal alternative scheme. The map of what replaced the IOU.
Six Retirement Mistakes UAE Muslims Keep Making
The DEWS default trap, the gratuity fantasy, the remittance-only plan: six specific, fixable errors we see across UAE retirement planning, each with its verified correction.
myPlan Review (2026): Automating Halal Saving From AED 100 a Month
myPlan is National Bonds' automation engine: a direct debit that buys Saving Bonds monthly, with prize chances that scale as balances grow. The best behavioral product on the shelf, with the same yield opacity as its parent.
The True Cost of an Islamic Mortgage in the UAE: Every Fee, Listed (2026)
The rate gets the poster; the fees get your money quietly. Processing from 0.525% to 1%, valuations to AED 10,000, pre-approval charges, settlement caps and a 3% buyout trap, itemized from published schedules.
How Much Down Payment You Actually Need for Halal Home Finance in the UAE (2026)
Fifteen percent if you are Emirati and buying your first home under AED 5 million. Fifty percent if the tower is not built yet. Every published financing band in the UAE Islamic market, with the arithmetic on real price points.
The Expat's Guide to Halal Home Finance in the UAE (2026)
You will put down more, prove more income and lose the schemes, but the UAE remains one of the few places an expatriate Muslim can finance a home without touching riba. The complete playbook, gate by gate.
Fixed for Life or EIBOR Plus Margin? How UAE Islamic Home Finance Pricing Really Works
Your halal mortgage rental probably floats on the same benchmark as your neighbor's conventional mortgage. Why that is fine in fiqh, what the margin and floor actually do, and when to pay for certainty instead.
GPSSA After Law 57/2023: How the Emirati Pension Actually Works
Two pension regimes now run in parallel for UAE nationals, split by one date: 31 October 2023. Contribution rates, salary caps, the government subsidy, and what GPSSA does and does not cover.
Your Joint Account Will Freeze Too: The UAE Death Freeze, and How to Plan Around It
When a UAE resident dies, banks freeze their accounts, joint accounts included, until succession is certified. No will prevents it. Here is the mechanism, the months it can cost, and the liquidity design that makes it survivable.