Principal Investment Strategies
Following are the main investment strategies to be implemented:
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Investing primarily in Sharia compliant short, medium, and long term financial instruments, such as money market transactions including: Murabaha, Wakala, Mudaraba and Musharaka, fixed income instruments, and Sharia compliant swap alternatives, repurchase agreement (repo) and reverse repurchase agreement, structured products and asset‐backed securities.
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The Fund invests primarily in a selection of financial instruments with counterparties in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia licensed by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency or with other counterpart licensed by equivalent regulator outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Not more than 25% of the Fund’s NAV may be invested in different parties belonging to the same group, including all investments in securities issued by different parties belonging to the same group and money market transactions concluded with different parties belong to the same group and bank deposits with different parties belong to the same group. -
The Fund seeks to reduce the risk levels through conducting investments with companies / counterparties which have good and sound financial backing based on strategies of cash management and diversified investments.
The Fund may invest in fixed income instruments of no more than 40% of the Fund's Net Asset Value. The Fund may invest no more than 10% of its Net Asset Value in sub-investment grade instruments with lower than the following credit rating: Standard & Poor's: BBB- , Moody Baa3 and Fitch: BBB-. -
The minimum credit rating for most of the underlying investments and counterparties will be as determined by one of the international credit rating agencies as per the following: Standard & Poor's: BBB-, Moody's Baa3, Fitch: BBB-. In the absence of credit rating of the Fund's investments or counterparties, the Fund Manager will rate the quality of investments internally based on the stability and soundness of financial position of the counterparty or the issuer.
For more information on the Fund’s investment strategies please refer to the Terms & Conditions.