Investment fund / pension transfer

Salams,

I saw some names mentioned in the halal investing course as:

  • Aberdeen Islamic fund
  • iShares world
  • US ETF
  • iShares emerging markets islamic ETF

Do any of these provide a better return than the ‘HSBC Islamic Global Equity Index Fund IC’ which is listed as a projected annual return of 19.12% on here: https://www.islamicfinanceguru.com/halal-investments/

Also, following on from my previous post, would any of the 4 mentioned above be a better place to transfer my pension across to than the HSBC option?

JazakAllah

Wa Alaykum il Salam.

This is a tricky question since performance of these funds are based on the holdings within the fund. Most of the funds you have listed except the emerging markets and I believe the Aberdeen Islamic actually share the same holdings (companies). So performance of the HSBC Global Index will ultimately have some sort performance link to the ISWD (Islamic World by iShares) although better fund managers can take action quicker potentially saving you heavier losses.

The point to take home here is the fees.
You will need to see which platform charges less as this can make a huge overall difference.
For e.g.

  1. AMF (Annual Management Fee by the platform you use)
  2. The Fund fee itself.
  3. Foreign Currency fees (iShares ISUS is in $ so dividends get converted to £)

Hope this helps.

Walikum as salam.

If you want to compare how these funds have performed in the “past” then simply google the funds fact sheet for each - But past performance is not a guarantee of the “future” performance.

For pension funds (i.e. long term horizon) growth stocks tilted funds probably will keep doing well until we see an increase in the interest rates (Growth generally do well when interest rates are low)

What I have learnt from some decent experts that as a general rule of thumb, pick a “passive” fund that is “globally diversified” with the “cheapest fees”. The two comparable funds to me are HSBC and Ishares World Index.

All the best.
Zeeshan