Inspirasi untuk pelabur dan usahawan wanita
Salam semua, sebagai selingan. Saya akan sambung cerita tentang kesihatan dalam episod akan datang. Semoga artikel ini menjadi inspirasi buat pelabur-pelabur dan usahawan-usahawan wanita di luar sana.
Khatijah Ahmad, Founder and Chairman, KAF Group, Malaysia (int’l edition)
IN THE 25 YEARS SINCE KHATIJAH AHMAD FOUNDED HER FINANCIAL-SERVICES BUSINESS, she has developed an intuitive market sense and a contrarian spirit. While economic crisis has racked financial institutions throughout Malaysia, Khatijah’s KAF Group is poised to report one of its best years ever. As one of the few successful female entrepreneurs in a male-dominated Muslim society, Khatijah, 59, has used her skills to challenge societal barriers and build her business. KAF, which stands for Khatijah and family, is Malaysia’s largest bond and money-market trading house, with annual trading turnover of $13 billion. Analysts estimate KAF will report profits of more than $50 million for fiscal 1998–67% higher than precrisis profits of $30 million. ”You can make money all the way down and all the way up,” she says, ”as long as you know which part of the cycle you’re in and what you are doing.” Read more
