Shariah Adviser
Amanie Advisors Sdn Bhd
Amanie Advisors Sdn Bhd (''Amanie'') is a leading Shariah advisory firm specializing in Islamic finance solutions, serving institutional and corporate clients across the Islamic financial services industry. Amanie provides comprehensive Shariah advisory and consultancy services, supported by strong training, research, and development capabilities. The firm is a registered Shariah advisory company for Islamic unit trusts with the Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”).
Established to meet the growing global demand for proactive and practical Shariah expertise, Amanie partners with industry participants to support the structuring, implementation, and on-going management of Shariah-compliant financial products and services. Its advisory approach emphasises end-to-end Shariah governance, ensuring continuous compliance in line with evolving regulatory and market expectations.
Amanie’s strength lies in its people. The firm is supported by a dedicated team of full-time, experienced Shariah consultants, bringing industry experience across Islamic banking, capital markets, asset management, takaful, fintech, and regulatory advisory. This depth of expertise enables Amanie to deliver solutions that are not only technically sound, but also practical, scalable, and market-relevant. This expertise is further strengthened by rigorous training and mentorship under renowned Shariah scholars, ensuring that Amanie’s advisory work is grounded in strong Shariah scholarship while remaining practical and industry-relevant.
Beyond advisory, Amanie is deeply committed to human capital development through structured learning programmes that address both domestic and international developments in Islamic finance.
Amanie meets every quarter to address Shariah advisory matters related to our Shariah funds. Since its establishment in 2005, Amanie has accumulated extensive experience in the advisory role of unit trusts, overseeing more than 100 active funds as the Shariah Adviser.
The roles of Shariah Adviser are:
- To ensure that the Shariah-compliant funds managed by AmFunds Management Berhad and AmIslamic Funds Management Sdn. Bhd. (“Funds”) are managed and administered in accordance with Shariah Principles.
- To provide expertise and guidance in all matters relating to Shariah Principles, including deeds, disclosure documents, information memorandums and prospectuses, structures and investment processes, and other operational and administrative matters of the respective Funds.
- To consult with SC where there is any ambiguity or uncertainty as to an investment, instrument, system, procedure and/or process.
- To act with due care, skill and diligence in carrying out its duties and responsibilities.
- Responsible for scrutinizing the Funds’ compliance reports as provided by the compliance officer, and investment transaction reports provided by, or duly approved by, the trustee of each Fund to ensure that the Funds’ investments are in line with Shariah Principles.
- To prepare a report to be included in each Fund’s interim/quarterly and annual reports certifying whether the Fund have been managed and administered in accordance with Shariah Principles for the period concerned.
The designated person responsible for Shariah advisory matters of the Funds is Puan Suhaida Mahpot, Chief Executive Officer of Amanie Advisors Sdn. Bhd. supported by Ahmad Anas Fadzil and Ahmad Faizul Rizal Amran as the Shariah Officers.
The Consulting Team
Suhaida Mahpot
Suhaida Mahpot is the Chief Executive Officer for Amanie Advisors in Kuala Lumpur office. She joined Amanie in 2008 and was amongst the pioneers in the company. She is a specialist in sukuk advisory and has been partnering with Tan Sri Dr Mohd Daud Bakar for the last 10 years to advise numerous sukuk locally and internationally.
One of the sukuk advised by her has been awarded as Best Securitisation Sukuk at The Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Award (2017). Apart from sukuk advisory, her primarily focus is on Shariah governance, structuring, enhancement and conversion exercises, establishment of Islamic financial entities as well as development of Islamic products. She holds a Bachelor of Economics (Islamic Economic & Finance) from International Islamic University Malaysia, and currently pursuing MSc in Islamic Finance with INCEIF. Her career in banking & financial industry started as a trainee under Capital Market Graduated Trainee Scheme organized by the SC.
Prior to joining Amanie, she worked with Affin Investment Bank Bhd since 2006 as an executive for debt & capital markets department. She completed various project financing deals using private debt securities instruments ranging from infrastructure & utilities, real estate, plantation and many others.
Ahmad Anas Fadzil
Ahmad Anas Fadzil (CSAA, CIPA) is a registered Shariah Advisor with the Securities Commission of Malaysia and the Director with Amanie Advisors. He is also a Professional Accountant by profession. Currently, he is based at the Head Office in Kuala Lumpur. As part of Amanie Advisors’ global team, his primary focus is on advising and consulting clients from various Islamic financial institutions, regulators and corporations across the globe on Shariah compliant products, instruments and other services as well as on their strategic and corporate issues.
Prior to joining Amanie Advisors, he was attached with Sigur Ros, a global Malaysian-based company for Turkiye Government’s Project of the Century known as the Turkish Republic North Cyprus Water Supply project where he had been assigned as the Project Accountant based in Turkiye overseeing the overall project finance related matters including financing, cost budgeting, cost management, reporting, as well other administrative matters including handling the local tax authority and local administrative bodies.
Prior to that, he was an external auditor with Messrs. Ernst & Young based in Kuala Lumpur, whereby he was attached to the Global Financial Services department, engaged in performing auditing work for the financial institutions including Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank), EXIM Bank Berhad, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Malaysian Electronic Payment Systems (MEPS).
He holds a professional certification of Certified Sharia’ Adviser and Auditor (CSAA) and Certified Islamic Public Accountant (CIPA) both from Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institution based in Bahrain (AAOIFI) as well as Masters of Islamic Finance (MSc) from The Global University of Islamic Finance (INCEIF). He is also an accounting graduate from MARA University of Technology (UiTM) and an Executive Diploma in Shariah holder from University of Malaya Centre for Continuing Education (UMCCed). He speaks Bahasa Melayu, English and Turkish.
Ahmad Faizul Rizal Amran
Ahmad Faizul Rizal Amran is an Associate Director at Amanie Advisors (Head Office) and a Registered Shariah Adviser with the Securities Commission Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Shariah (Islamic Banking and Economics) from Yarmouk University, Jordan.
Prior to joining Amanie Advisors, he began his career as a trainee under the Islamic Capital Market Graduate Trainee Scheme organised by the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), the training and development arm of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). He subsequently passed the SC Licensing Examination, namely Module 6 (Stock Market & Securities Laws) and Module 7 (Financial Statement Analysis & Asset Valuation).
He later joined Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad as a Senior Associate in the Credit Equity Broking Department, where he was responsible for the Share Margin Financing division and related activities, including stockbroking operations.
He is also currently undergoing the professional Certified Shariah Adviser certification under the Association of Shariah Advisors in Islamic Finance (ASAS).
