BIMB INVESTMENT LAUNCHES THE WORLD’S FIRST ESG SUKUK FUND
BIMB INVESTMENT IS THE FIRST IN THE WORLD TO INTRODUCE SUKUK UNIT TRUST FUND THAT INTEGRATES SHARIAH AND ESG PRINCIPLES
KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, 2018 – BIMB Investment Management Berhad (“BIMB Investment”) today launched the BIMB ESG Sukuk Fund (“the Fund”).  This is the world’s first ESG Sukuk fund and the first Shariah Sukuk Fund in Malaysia approved under the Sustainable Responsible Investing (SRI) guidelines introduced in December 2017.
BIMB ESG Sukuk Fund is the first fund of its kind in the world which 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.