Welcome to the December 2024 edition of our Malaadhu Thar’wah newsletter. In this edition, we will continue with our case studies on multi-generational wealth planning for a family.
The Client
Hajia Jemila Uthman is a thriving textile trader living in Ilorin, Nigeria. She has accumulated significant savings over the years and wants to distribute some of her wealth to her adopted children (people working for her) and charitable causes during her lifetime. Hajia Uthman wants to ensure that her gift-giving aligns with Islamic principles.
The Challenge
Hajia wants to make Hibah (gifts) to her adopted children, and a local Islamic school but she is unsure about the provisions of Shariah and the potential impact it could have on her children’s future inheritance.
The Solution
Hajia consults with an Islamic estate planning expert who advises her on the following:
- She can make Hibah if the gifts do not exceed one-third of her total wealth.
- The Hibah should not be given to someone already entitled to a share under the Faraid (Islamic inheritance) rules, as this could be considered a violation of the Shariah.
- Hajia can make Hibah to the local Islamic school, as this would be considered a charitable contribution and would not affect her children’s inheritance.
- Hajia documents all her Hibah transactions and ensures that her children are aware of the gifts, to avoid any potential disputes in the future.
The Outcome
Hajia can distribute her wealth during her lifetime in a manner that aligns with Islamic principles. Her Hibah to her family members and the local Islamic school are well-received, and her children understand the rationale behind her gift-giving decisions. This helps to maintain family harmony and strengthen Hajia’s connection with her community.
You can learn more about Hibah by reading our article here.
At Fiduciary Services Limited, our services include consultation prior to the drafting of Hibah Declaration, and the drafting, execution, and safekeeping of the Hibah Declaration.
Do you seek peace and tranquillity for your family after your death? Do you worry about catering for your loved ones after your death? Are you worried that the rules of succession in Islam might prevent you from gifting those who are not your heirs certain assets?
If so, reach out to our Islamic Estate Advisors to get started on your estate planning journey. We hold ourselves to a very high standard of professional practices in our Islamic estate distribution services such that we can ensure peace amongst the heirs and respect the deceased wishes while distributing the estate which guarantees the deceased rewards even after their death.
Get in touch with one of our professionals today by sending a mail to contact@fiduciaryservicesltd.com.You can learn more about Hibah by reading our article here.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Anita
Brightley-Hodges
Family Business Consultant
www.anitabrightleyhodges.co.uk
Anita Brightley-Hodges has over 35 years of experience in family business consulting. Anita has encountered virtually every challenge imaginable in the realm of family enterprises, playing a crucial role in transforming some of the most complex and emotionally charged situations across the UK and abroad.
Anita specialises in helping family-run businesses break free from stagnation and propel forward with renewed vigor. Her expertise spans several critical areas, such as Succession Planning, Preparing and Mentoring the Next Generation, Governance Structures such as Family Councils, Company Boards, and meetings, etc, Establishing Effective Communication Methods, Resolving Conflict and Mediation among Family Members, and Family Away-Days and Future Planning
Anita Brightley-Hudges has consistently demonstrated her exceptional ability to navigate and resolve intricate dynamics by helping family businesses thrive. Her dedication and insight are truly invaluable, making her a distinguished figure in the field of family business consultancy.
Louis Yaw Afful
Group Executive Director APN Group. International Trade & Investment Practitioner and AFCFTA consultant.
International Trade Practitioner, Private sector and AfCFT Expert. Executive Director APN Group of Organizations.
1. AfCFTA Policy Network (APN)
2. Women of Africa Network (WOAN)
3. Africa Globalized Investment
4. Africa Business Export Club 500 (ABEC)
Louis became the Leading Pioneer in the Continental Advocacy on AfCFTA in Ghana and Africa. Through APN he set the Trailblazer for AfCfta CSOs and Private sector Organizations. He is an International Trade Practitioner and African continental Free Trade Area Expert (AfCFTA ). APN Group is the premier and largest international Non-Governmental Organization established to lead the private sector initiative on the Sensitization, Advocacy, Research, Investment and capacity building on the implementation of the AfCFTA.
Currently, Louis is a member of the Technical Expert on the African Union SMEs Ecosystems project (STC) in collaboration with Expertise France Louis was the lead Consultant to ACET / ROCKEFELLER USA on Domestication of AfCFTA Protocols Project.
Louis had been part of the consultative Experts who participated in the workings on the Cfta, now the African continental free trade. Being the pioneer in the Sensitization, advocacy and private sector drive on AfCFTAta in Ghana and in Africa which received commendation from the chief Technical Advisor of AfCFTA. His expertise focuses on, private sector, Entrepreneurship, innovation and policy success under AFCTA. A former Finance manager of a large multi-million-dollar Retail company E.S.L who transformed the firm’s revenue base. Former Country director of MIP UK , Ghana office ,an international Management Exchange program.
He is a Member of Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Technical Working Group on AfCFTA , which worked on the National Policy Framework. Louis Yaw Afful has recently been Appointed UNYA Ghana Ambassador on Sustainable Trade & AfCTA Coordination Trade for UNYA Ghana.
Louis has been An international sought after Speaker and he has featured on several international media organizations, the BBC, CNBC , DW, eNCA, CGTN and other National media channels. louis sits on international boards, including SEEDS DUBAI, WCO, and other National organizations including, Ghana Chamber of SMEs.
Faiz Ragoo
Founder, FR Advisory, Mauritius.
Head of Compliance and MLRO, MINDEX, Mauritius.
Faiz is an entrepreneur in Mauritius and Seychelles, in different fields of Finance: Offshore, Securities Exchange, Trading Platform, FinTech, and Private Wealth Management. He lived, studied and worked for 6 years in France (Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Metz).
Faiz started his career as an auditor at KPMG. He then worked as a private wealth manager in Toulouse. When he returned to Mauritius, he worked at the Board of Investment as an Investment Executive then with a Swiss Group, Amaris, as the strategic partnership manager, being a buy side M&A for the group.
He then moved to the Offshore, Securities Exchange, Private Wealth Management and FinTech industry since 2018.
Faiz holds a Masters in Financial and Wealth Management from the University of Bordeaux (France) and a Masters in International Finance from the University of Metz (France).
He also holds the professional AMF Certification from the French Financial Markets Authority (‘Autorité des Marchés Financiers de France’).
Faiz speaks English and French fluently.
Ayodele Idowu
Managing Partner/Chief Executive, Trade Pointe Capital
Ayodele is the Managing Partner/Chief Executive of Trade Pointe Capital (a company that specializes in alternative investments). He has over 18 years experience in the financial service industry with specialization in business and market strategy development, project management, business analysis and wealth management.
Prior to setting up Trade Pointe, Ayodele worked in different subsidiaries within the ARM Group including the asset management business, securities brokerage, specialized funds and real estate.
Ayodele is a Certified Wealth Management Professional, business analyst and corporate transformation expert.
Madhvi Bokhoree Botun
Head, Business Development, Rogers Capital Corporate Services Limited, Mauritius
Madhvi holds the position of Head of Business Development at Rogers Capital Corporate Services Limited, bringing with her 22 years of experience in the Global Business Sector. Her expertise includes Business Advisory and Structuring, Global Business Product Development, e.g.. Fund Structures, Special Licences and Captive, Outsourcing and Client Services and International Jurisdictional Understanding.
Madhvi, leads the Corporate & Trust Business Development Committee, ensuring strategic decisions align with organisational goals. As a strategic development expert, she crafts plans for lead acquisition and pipeline building. In her directorial role for various GBL companies, Madhvi oversees license applications and projects, ensuring compliance with Mauritius law. She possesses a profound understanding of structuring and statutory requirements in jurisdictions such as Seychelles, BVI, Malta, Singapore, and Hong Kong, facilitating seamless international expansion.
Madhvi, is an ACCA member with core competencies in Leadership, Team Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Execution, Relationship Building, Financial Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, License Management, and International Business Advisory. She holds a B.A (Hons) in Economics, completed the ACE MDP Program, and earned an MA in Global Financial Services. Additionally, Madhvi is ICSA Qualified.
Gala Fary
CEO/President, IRON Currency Solutions
President, Major League Drone Racing (MLDR) Africa
President/Partner, Pyramid Exchange Global Trading Company
Gala Fary is a consummate professional with diverse corporate experience in multiple industry verticals. With 36 years of progressive leadership experience, Gala has pivoted from employer status, with many of America’s Fortune 500 companies, to entrepreneur. She leverages her professional network and business acumen to strategic business solutions for projects throughout the global trade and investment community.
Ms. Fary has more than 36 years of progressive executive experience supporting client relations, project management, change management and quality process management.
She has managed projects and solution delivery for several International Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, IBM, GE, and Aetna in aerospace, oil/gas, energy, and healthcare. She began her career on the International Space Station in Huntsville, AL and Houston, TX training NASA engineers how to utilize proprietary programs to design and build the Space Station. She is currently the CEO/President of IRON Currency Solutions, a strategic business solution company, President of Major League Drone Racing Africa an international drone racing league with a focus on Africa, and President/Partner, Pyramid Exchange Global Trading Company.
“Iron Sharpens Iron” is at the heart of who she is and what she does. As an Industrial Engineer, she can find a solution to every problem. Her business acumen brings knowledge and expertise in several industry verticals, as well as a strong network of business relations. She can leverage that knowledge and relationships to help other businesses to find like-minded strategic partners and investors.
Abayomi Ogunjobi
Co-founder & Director, PennyTree
Abayomi Ogunjobi is a strategic leader with extensive experience in financial services and fintech. He has over 13 years of work experience spanning Corporate Finance, Marketing, Investor Relations, Financial Technology, Business Strategy & Growth. He is currently Co-founder & Director at PennyTree a Financial Technology company that provides digital banking services to individuals and businesses.
He is holder of a BSc Degree in Accounting and earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration (“MBA”) with distinction from the New York Institute of Technology, USA He is a member of two International honours societies: Beta Gamma Sigma and the Financial Management Association International (FMA).
He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK and a Qualified member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) Canada and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Anita
Brightley-Hodges
Family Business Consultant
www.anitabrightleyhodges.co.uk
Anita Brightley-Hodges has over 35 years of experience in family business consulting. Anita has encountered virtually every challenge imaginable in the realm of family enterprises, playing a crucial role in transforming some of the most complex and emotionally charged situations across the UK and abroad.
Anita specialises in helping family-run businesses break free from stagnation and propel forward with renewed vigor. Her expertise spans several critical areas, such as Succession Planning, Preparing and Mentoring the Next Generation, Governance Structures such as Family Councils, Company Boards, and meetings, etc, Establishing Effective Communication Methods, Resolving Conflict and Mediation among Family Members, and Family Away-Days and Future Planning
Anita Brightley-Hudges has consistently demonstrated her exceptional ability to navigate and resolve intricate dynamics by helping family businesses thrive. Her dedication and insight are truly invaluable, making her a distinguished figure in the field of family business consultancy.
Louis Yaw Afful
Group Executive Director APN Group. International Trade & Investment Practitioner and AFCFTA consultant.
International Trade Practitioner, Private sector and AfCFT Expert. Executive Director APN Group of Organizations.
1. AfCFTA Policy Network (APN)
2. Women of Africa Network (WOAN)
3. Africa Globalized Investment
4. Africa Business Export Club 500 (ABEC)
Louis became the Leading Pioneer in the Continental Advocacy on AfCFTA in Ghana and Africa. Through APN he set the Trailblazer for AfCfta CSOs and Private sector Organizations. He is an International Trade Practitioner and African continental Free Trade Area Expert (AfCFTA ). APN Group is the premier and largest international Non-Governmental Organization established to lead the private sector initiative on the Sensitization, Advocacy, Research, Investment and capacity building on the implementation of the AfCFTA.
Currently, Louis is a member of the Technical Expert on the African Union SMEs Ecosystems project (STC) in collaboration with Expertise France Louis was the lead Consultant to ACET / ROCKEFELLER USA on Domestication of AfCFTA Protocols Project.
Louis had been part of the consultative Experts who participated in the workings on the Cfta, now the African continental free trade. Being the pioneer in the Sensitization, advocacy and private sector drive on AfCFTAta in Ghana and in Africa which received commendation from the chief Technical Advisor of AfCFTA. His expertise focuses on, private sector, Entrepreneurship, innovation and policy success under AFCTA. A former Finance manager of a large multi-million-dollar Retail company E.S.L who transformed the firm’s revenue base. Former Country director of MIP UK , Ghana office ,an international Management Exchange program.
He is a Member of Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Technical Working Group on AfCFTA , which worked on the National Policy Framework. Louis Yaw Afful has recently been Appointed UNYA Ghana Ambassador on Sustainable Trade & AfCTA Coordination Trade for UNYA Ghana.
Louis has been An international sought after Speaker and he has featured on several international media organizations, the BBC, CNBC , DW, eNCA, CGTN and other National media channels. louis sits on international boards, including SEEDS DUBAI, WCO, and other National organizations including, Ghana Chamber of SMEs.
Faiz Ragoo
Founder, FR Advisory, Mauritius.
Head of Compliance and MLRO, MINDEX, Mauritius.
Faiz is an entrepreneur in Mauritius and Seychelles, in different fields of Finance: Offshore, Securities Exchange, Trading Platform, FinTech, and Private Wealth Management. He lived, studied and worked for 6 years in France (Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Metz).
Faiz started his career as an auditor at KPMG. He then worked as a private wealth manager in Toulouse. When he returned to Mauritius, he worked at the Board of Investment as an Investment Executive then with a Swiss Group, Amaris, as the strategic partnership manager, being a buy side M&A for the group.
He then moved to the Offshore, Securities Exchange, Private Wealth Management and FinTech industry since 2018.
Faiz holds a Masters in Financial and Wealth Management from the University of Bordeaux (France) and a Masters in International Finance from the University of Metz (France).
He also holds the professional AMF Certification from the French Financial Markets Authority (‘Autorité des Marchés Financiers de France’).
Faiz speaks English and French fluently.
Ayodele Idowu
Managing Partner/Chief Executive, Trade Pointe Capital
Ayodele is the Managing Partner/Chief Executive of Trade Pointe Capital (a company that specializes in alternative investments). He has over 18 years experience in the financial service industry with specialization in business and market strategy development, project management, business analysis and wealth management.
Prior to setting up Trade Pointe, Ayodele worked in different subsidiaries within the ARM Group including the asset management business, securities brokerage, specialized funds and real estate.
Ayodele is a Certified Wealth Management Professional, business analyst and corporate transformation expert.
Madhvi Bokhoree Botun
Head, Business Development, Rogers Capital Corporate Services Limited, Mauritius
Madhvi holds the position of Head of Business Development at Rogers Capital Corporate Services Limited, bringing with her 22 years of experience in the Global Business Sector. Her expertise includes Business Advisory and Structuring, Global Business Product Development, e.g.. Fund Structures, Special Licences and Captive, Outsourcing and Client Services and International Jurisdictional Understanding.
Madhvi, leads the Corporate & Trust Business Development Committee, ensuring strategic decisions align with organisational goals. As a strategic development expert, she crafts plans for lead acquisition and pipeline building. In her directorial role for various GBL companies, Madhvi oversees license applications and projects, ensuring compliance with Mauritius law. She possesses a profound understanding of structuring and statutory requirements in jurisdictions such as Seychelles, BVI, Malta, Singapore, and Hong Kong, facilitating seamless international expansion.
Madhvi, is an ACCA member with core competencies in Leadership, Team Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Execution, Relationship Building, Financial Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, License Management, and International Business Advisory. She holds a B.A (Hons) in Economics, completed the ACE MDP Program, and earned an MA in Global Financial Services. Additionally, Madhvi is ICSA Qualified.
Gala Fary
CEO/President, IRON Currency Solutions
President, Major League Drone Racing (MLDR) Africa
President/Partner, Pyramid Exchange Global Trading Company
Gala Fary is a consummate professional with diverse corporate experience in multiple industry verticals. With 36 years of progressive leadership experience, Gala has pivoted from employer status, with many of America’s Fortune 500 companies, to entrepreneur. She leverages her professional network and business acumen to strategic business solutions for projects throughout the global trade and investment community.
Ms. Fary has more than 36 years of progressive executive experience supporting client relations, project management, change management and quality process management.
She has managed projects and solution delivery for several International Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, IBM, GE, and Aetna in aerospace, oil/gas, energy, and healthcare. She began her career on the International Space Station in Huntsville, AL and Houston, TX training NASA engineers how to utilize proprietary programs to design and build the Space Station. She is currently the CEO/President of IRON Currency Solutions, a strategic business solution company, President of Major League Drone Racing Africa an international drone racing league with a focus on Africa, and President/Partner, Pyramid Exchange Global Trading Company.
“Iron Sharpens Iron” is at the heart of who she is and what she does. As an Industrial Engineer, she can find a solution to every problem. Her business acumen brings knowledge and expertise in several industry verticals, as well as a strong network of business relations. She can leverage that knowledge and relationships to help other businesses to find like-minded strategic partners and investors.
Abayomi Ogunjobi
Co-founder & Director, PennyTree
Abayomi Ogunjobi is a strategic leader with extensive experience in financial services and fintech. He has over 13 years of work experience spanning Corporate Finance, Marketing, Investor Relations, Financial Technology, Business Strategy & Growth. He is currently Co-founder & Director at PennyTree a Financial Technology company that provides digital banking services to individuals and businesses.
He is holder of a BSc Degree in Accounting and earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration (“MBA”) with distinction from the New York Institute of Technology, USA He is a member of two International honours societies: Beta Gamma Sigma and the Financial Management Association International (FMA).
He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK and a Qualified member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) Canada and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
