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ALFATIMIYAH Consultancy

Partnering with our clients.Integrated with their teams.

A multidisciplinary consultancy across the GCC and beyond.

We bring together professionals with diverse backgrounds and relevant expertise to support our clients with consultancy services spanning transaction origination, structuring, asset allocation, and Sharia-compliant solutions.

Who We Are

A team that partners, not just advises.

ALFATIMIYAH Consultancy partners with its clients and integrates with their teams, bringing together professionals with diverse backgrounds and relevant expertise to support clients with consultancy services across multiple areas, including:

We also partner with industry and sector experts, as well as subject matter specialists — including Sharia scholars and tax specialists — to ensure ALFATIMIYAH delivers complete and comprehensive recommendations to every client.

Our Approach

From Objectives to Implementation

01

Objectives

Thoroughly understand each client's needs to crystallize objectives, and articulate risk appetite.

02

Recommend

Devise realistic and actionable recommendations focused on achieving the return objectives.

03

Implement

Deliver a clear implementation roadmap to achieve the objectives in a timely and cost-effective manner.

That strength rests on three things: assessing each client's current and future needs to set crystal clear objectives, articulating their risk appetite with precision, and evaluating their existing organizational and team structures. Piercing the complexities of all three is what makes a recommendation realistic rather than generic.

ALFATIMIYAH is not only proud of the quality of its recommendations, but also the clarity of the implementation roadmap that helps achieve each client's objective(s) in a timely and cost-effective manner — a trait that sets ALFATIMIYAH apart from its peers.

Objectives to Implementation — a three-step process: objectives, recommend, implement
Our Investment Philosophy

Themes, not trends.

A fundamentally geared and research driven approach anchors everything ALFATIMIYAH recommends. Rather than chasing the latest market trend, our team works to identify the economic and market themes genuinely at play — and to position clients to benefit from them, or avoid them, ahead of consensus.

This discipline is not applied selectively; it is the common thread running through our consultancy practice. It is what draws the professionals, sector experts, and specialists in ALFATIMIYAH's network together, and what ties every recommendation — from transaction origination to portfolio construction — back to demonstrable fundamentals rather than market noise.

Thematic, not reactive

Recommendations are tied to identifiable economic themes, not headlines.

Fundamentals over sentiment

Every position or structure we recommend is underwritten by fundamental analysis, not market euphoria.

Key Areas of Focus

Where we spend our time

01

Origination of Transactions

Locally, regionally, and internationally.

02

Structuring Transactions

Including recommendations that lead to tax-efficient structures.

03

Capital Structure & Financing

Recommending efficient capital structures and financing options.

04

Diagnosing Investment Portfolios — Consultancy

Reviewing portfolios to identify suitable asset allocation and investment opportunities.

05

Evaluating Investment Opportunities

Based on fundamental analysis, research, and financial modeling.

06

Sharia-Compliant Structures

Including obtaining fatwas from reputable Sharia advisors.

Leadership

The team behind ALFATIMIYAH

Ali Taqi, CFA — Chief Executive Officer of ALFATIMIYAH Consultancy

Ali Taqi, CFA

Chief Executive Officer

Ali Taqi, CFA, is an investment management executive with over 26 years of experience across international and GCC markets. His career spans multiple geographies — the United States, Kuwait, and the UAE — most recently as Chief Investment Officer at the DIFC-based Rasmala Investment Bank Limited in Dubai.

Over the last decade, his focus has centered on structuring Sharia-compliant transactions across regional and international markets and managing multi-asset portfolios — spanning asset allocation, security selection, and debt advisory. His approach is fundamentally geared and research driven, a thematic lens he has carried throughout his career and instilled as ALFATIMIYAH's guiding philosophy.

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Why ALFATIMIYAH

Built to see a solution through.

  • A Multidisciplinary Team

    Professionals with diverse backgrounds working alongside industry, sector, and Sharia specialists to deliver wholesome recommendations, not siloed advice.

  • A Deep, Cross-Border Network

    Investors, professionals, experts, and service providers, built over decades across multiple geographies.

  • Fundamentals Over Trends

    Every recommendation is underwritten by rigorous research and fundamental analysis, not market euphoria.

  • GCC Market Depth

    Grounded expertise in GCC equity, bond, and sukuk markets, and Sharia-compliant structuring.

Contact Us

Let's talk about what's keeping you busy.

Whether you're originating or structuring a transaction, evaluating a new investment opportunity, dealing with a legacy asset, setting up a fund, optimizing a capital / debt structure, constructing or repositioning an investment portfolio, or looking for Sharia-compliant solutions, our team is ready to partner with yours.

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ALFATIMIYAH Consultancy
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Unit No: 1502-B, Mazaya Business Avenue AA1
DMCC, Jumeirah Lakes Towers
Dubai, UAE
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