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Kifayah Strategy of Bank Deposits

A comprehensive portfolio management solution for Individuals, Companies and Retirement Funds for investments in Shariah Compliant equity and fixed income securities, mutual funds or bank deposits. We have worked out appropriate strategies and arrangements which are available for our clients. This ensures that, our clients money is invested to provide competitive returns.  So if you are maintaining deposits with a Shariah Compliant Bank /window (of a conventional Bank) and you would like to enhance your returns or if you are invested in stocks and are not sure which portfolio would be best, we can help.

Our team will work with you to make an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) considering your individual needs. From the discussions, we help our clients set up an investment objective and allocate amounts for investments to: Fixed income Securities/Bank deposits to generate regular income and stocks and Sukuks to generate growth. Make us a partner in your investment journey and we will collectively strive to achieve your investment goals.

The next step of the process is identifying the most suitable asset allocation for each client based on his needs and saving objectives. Besides, our research team continuously evaluates Macro-economic environment & Geopolitical situation of the country; Economic outlook; Emerging asset classes; and attractive investment opportunities. The single focus of our team is to realise our customer’s investment objectives without taking extra risk.

Our benchmark is the KMI-30 Index consisting of top thirty companies that have been screened for Islamic Shariah criteria. Our universe largely consists of a refined combination of Shariah compliant scrips from the KSE-100 Index and the PSX KMI All Shares Index.

We offer following investment strategies and arrangements and our clients choose from them while discussing IPS:

KIFAYAH STRATEGY OF FUNDS (SoF)

Historically, tracing back to 15 years, investment in KSE 100 index has provided a return of ~15% annually. This is the normal or intrinsic return of the market or equity funds, primarily based on growth and inflation. These returns however come with extreme volatility with long periods of gaining years followed by some loss making periods. With Kifayah Strategy of Funds (SoF), the portfolio of mutual funds is rebalanced periodically between Equity and Money Market Funds to maximize returns. This active switching between funds is based on research, timings, and current market situation in order to cut down on losses and optimize on returns.

Our performance, compared with the KMI-30 benchmark:

Financial Years  KMI-30 Index   Kifayah SoF (Testing results) 
 Points   ———————-Returns———————– 
FY – 2017                78,598 18.8% 36.3%
FY – 2018                  71,060 -9.6% -2.6%
FY – 2019                     54,119 -23.8% 29.9%
July to Dec 19                   66,032 22.0% 35.4%
 Kifayah SoF (Actual Result) 
Jan to June 2020           54,995 -16.7% -20.7%
CAGR (4 years) -4.5% 16.7%

 

For link to daily SoF performance, click here

KIFAYAH STRATEGY OF PENSION FUNDS (SoPF)

Historically, tracing back to 15 years, investment in KSE-100 index has provided a return of ~15% annually. This is the normal or intrinsic return of the equity market, primarily based on growth and inflation. These returns however come with extreme volatility with long periods of gaining years followed by some loss making periods. With Kifayah Strategy of Pension Funds (SoPF), we actively manage your plans between shariah compliant money market and equity sub-funds based on our research, timings, and current situation of economy to provide investor with the best optimized return by making maximum two investments in accordance with NBFC rules.

KIFAYAH STRATEGY OF STOCKS (SoS)

Historically, tracing back to 15 years, investment in KSE-100 index has provided a return of ~15% annually. This is the normal or intrinsic return of the equity market, primarily based on growth and inflation. These returns however come with extreme volatility with long periods of gaining years followed by some loss making periods. With Kifayah Strategy of Stocks (SoS), we invest and actively manage a diversified portfolio of high growth companies selected from PSX-KMI All Shares Index targeted to earn higher capital gains, and these stocks qualify for selection under after passing through a set of criterion. This is a strategy to invest in companies with above average growth potential, at attractive prices.

Our performance, compared with the KMI-30 benchmark:

Fiscal Years  KMI-30 Index   Kifayah SoS (Testing results) 
 Points   Returns   Returns 
FY17                 78,598 18.8% 29.8%
FY18                 71,060 -9.6% 1.8%
FY19                 54,119 -23.8% 7.3%
Jul-19 to May-20                 55,172 1.9% 16.8%
 Kifayah SoS (Actual)
Jun-20                 54,995 -0.3% 0.4%
CAGR (4 years) -4.5% 13.5%

We offer two variants of Kifayah SoS:

  1. Profit Encashment: with this option, any realized gains will be paid to the investor on a periodic basis, thereby providing a regular cashflow in addition to dividend gains.
  2. Profit Reinvestment: with this option, the realized gains will be reinvested, but dividends will be paid to the investor.

For link to daily SoS Performance, click here.

KIFAYAH STRATEGY OF DIVIDEND STOCKS (SoDS)

Historically, tracing back to 15 years, investment in KSE-100 index has provided a return of ~15% annually. This is the normal or intrinsic return of the equity market, primarily based on growth and inflation. These returns however come with extreme volatility with long periods of gaining years followed by some loss making periods. With Kifayah Strategy of Dividend Stocks (SoDS), we invest and actively manage a diversified portfolio of high dividend yielding stocks selected from PSX-KMI All Shares Index targeted to earn higher and regular dividend gains. This strategy is suitable for investors looking for regular stream of cash flows through dividend income, and partial capital growth with lower risk as compared with market.

KIFAYAH SHARIAH COMPLIANT DEPOSITS

With Kifayah Shariah Compliant Bank deposits, you can get the best of banking services when you’re one of the investor depositing collectively in a pool being represented by Kifayah. Through us, you can deposit at special rates and facilities via Term Deposit Certificates and become part of our arrangement with the banks offering competitive returns ranging from one month to one year.

Assets custody:

Please note that our role is limited to portfolio management on investor’s behalf under this mandate. All assets (including Bank and security accounts) remain in client’s own name.

  • Analysis of portfolio for reallocation;
  • Active portfolio management;
  • Active rebalancing of portfolio to maintain stock allocation, smoothing investment returns and keeping at par with the risk tolerance;
  • Communicating emerging investment opportunities;
  • Reporting on performance as per benchmark.
(i)             Kifayah Strategy of Funds (SoF) 1% of portfolio on achievement of 15%
gross profit target; or10% of profits; or

Rs. 42,000 per annum or 1% of portfolio per annum,
whichever is higher

(ii)            Kifayah Strategy of Stocks (SoS)
(iii)           Kifayah Strategy of Dividend Stocks (SoDS)
(iv)           Kifayah Strategy of Pension Funds (SoPF)
(v)            Kifayah Shariah Compliant Deposits 0.2% per annum of monthly average of Assets Under Management (AUM)
Minimum Investment Requirement Rs 3 million

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