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In January 2015, Karim was nominated for Businessman of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards.

In September 1995, Karim moved from the buying (allocation) to selling (fund management), and in December 1995 founded his own hedge fund Quality Capital Management (QCM) based in Weybridge, Surrey. He relocated to Weybridge, partly so his children would be educated there. He is the board member, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, carrying responsibility for the firm's investment strategies and research. In the years since, QCM has returned more than 600 per cent growth to its investors, with only two negative years. It has assets in the region of £150 million according to the Sunday Times Rich List. In 2008, the hedge fund made £42.9m profit on £49.3m sales, returning 59 per cent.

Karim has three children and his wife died in 1992.

After serving in public practice as senior audit manager for some years in London, Karim joined the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) as a financial manager on a two-year contract. Two years became four years, became six, became 12, and he went into investment management role. During his tenure at ADIA as Senior Investment Manager, he looked after the investment policies, strategies and asset allocation for a multibillion-dollar Alternative Investment Portfolio. He was with the institution from March 1982 until May 1995 before returning to the UK.

Karim moved to London and found a job as an articled clerk. In 1978, he qualified as a chartered accountant.

In the early 1970s, during the first year of his master's degree, he left East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) when he got caught in the middle of the Bangladesh Liberation War so when the opportunity came he fled.

Aref Karim FCA (Bengali: আরেফ করিম ; born 7 February 1953) is a Bangladeshi-born British accountant, hedge fund manager, and founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Quality Capital Management (QCM).

Karim's father worked into the civil service and then the British government worked up and became a senior officer in government of Bengal under British rule until 1947.