Amanah amasses members

Founder Brian Henry said it had accumulated 700 members.

“We’re pretty pleased with that growth. We only started marketing it heavily in September. There have been so many other things to organize and get settled down with licensing and so on, that’s very distracting from our marketing efforts.”

He said members had been recruited from around New Zealand.

Most were Islamic but he said non-Islamic New Zealanders were attracted by Amanah’s very defined investment strategic. “They know where their money is exactly. It’s a simple, long-term growth strategy.”