After graduating from Zayed University, you joined an investment firm as an investment analyst. Fixed income securities is a major proportion of the portfolio of that investment firm. The unit head of the fixed income securities is worried about the increasing inflation as well as the changes in yield curve due to its potential effect on the fixed income securities portfolio of the investment firm. Thus, the unit is devising strategies to cope with this unprecedented situation. As a graduate in finance with specialization in Islamic finance, do you think that the aforementioned factors will have an effect on the fixed income securities portfolio of the investment firm? Will the shariah compliant (alternative) to fixed income securities also effected by it? If yes, why, If no, why? Please elaborate your answer by highlighting the relevant risk that will effect the fixed income securities both from conventional and shariah compliant investment perspective.