Mansoor Danish – Ep 5 Islamic Mutual Fund Redefining Financial Landscape

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Welcome back to the Islamic finance series where we are
discussing about the innovative Islamic financial products, which are redefining and reshaping the
financial landscape. Today we talk about the Islamic mutual funds. The Islamic mutual funds not only
offers you equity based returns, but it also offers you returns which takes into account ethical and
religious considerations. So like its conventional counterpart, the conventional mutual fund in an
		

			Islamic mutual fund, you have investors pooling in their resources together, and giving it to a fund
manager who in turn is going to invest this money into a diversified pool of assets. Your Money
doesn't get invested into just one company or two companies, but a list of companies spread across
different sectors. But where is the difference? Where is the Sharia compliance, the difference lies
in the philosophy of selecting the companies in an Islamic mutual fund the investment manager or the
		

			fund manager is going to be extremely careful in selecting his companies, he is going to eliminate
all those companies which deals in interest or rubber companies which deals in speculative
activities, companies which is engaging in gambling or pork or alcohol, all of these companies are
completely ruled out. So it is this philosophy of selecting companies, which meets the Sharia
guidelines is what sets apart Islamic mutual fund from convention convention mutual fund. Otherwise,
		

			it's almost the same in terms of the way the money is collected, the way the returns are given there
is a nav or a net asset value, this nav can keep going up or down depending on the performance of
the companies in which the money has been invested. What's important over here is that you are
following the pls system of the profit and loss sharing system. You are also being careful in terms
of the company's where you are investing your money. So it is completely Sharia compliant in nature.
		

			Some of the examples of mutual funds which are already active in the mutual fund space, specially in
the Middle East, you have the HSBC Islamic Global Equity Index Fund, you have the Franklin Sharia
technology fund, you have the Templeton Sharia Global Equity Fund, so there are multiple of
investment opportunities available in the Islamic mutual fund space. You can check out for more
details by contacting your local bank. Thank you so much for watching this video. Please remember to
		

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