{"id":1979,"date":"2026-01-20T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/bimb-investment-launched-the-worlds-first-esg-sukuk-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:02:22","slug":"bimb-investment-launched-the-worlds-first-esg-sukuk-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/bimb-investment-launched-the-worlds-first-esg-sukuk-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMB Investment Launched the World\u2019s First ESG Sukuk Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIMB Investment Management Berhad (BIMB) launched the BIMB ESG Sukuk Fund,which targets to achieve RM150 million in a year for the fund.<\/p>\n<p>Approved under the Sustainable Responsible Investing (SRI) guidelines, this is the world\u2019s first environmental, social and governance (ESG) Sukuk fund and the first Shariah Sukuk Fund in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is the first fund of its kind in the world that integrates the principles of ESG criteria into the investment portfolio strategy to determine company performance to select best performing companies in both financial and non-financial performance, with respect to sukuk return and credit risk profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSustainable and socially responsible investing remains a huge area of opportunity to be tapped on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe industry and investors share their biggest questions in terms of return investments.\u201d said BIMB Investment chairman Nik Mohd Hasyudeen Yusoff.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that thousands of empirical studies and meta studies conducted in recent years show positive and sustainable impact on companies\u2019 long-term financial success, hence positive returns to investors in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fund offers corporate and retail investors a potential stable annual income stream and an opportunity for capital appreciation over the medium to long term by investing in local and global sukuk.\u201d said BIMB Investment chief executive officer Najmuddin Mohd Lutfi.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the sustainability analysis of each company the fund invests in would be made using UK-based Arabesque Asset Management Holding Ltd\u2019s proprietary S-ray machine learning and big data technology screening system.<\/p>\n<p>The system is the first of its kind in the world to assess a company\u2019s ESG score on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>It is offered for subscription in the ringgit, US dollar and Singapore dollar at 0.25 cents per unit during the initial offer period from Aug 1 until 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIMB Investment Management Berhad (BIMB) launched the BIMB ESG Sukuk Fund,which targets to achieve RM150 million in a year for the fund. Approved under the Sustainable Responsible Investing (SRI) guidelines, this is the world\u2019s first environmental, social and governance (ESG) Sukuk fund and the first Shariah Sukuk Fund in Malaysia. The fund is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}