Monday, 29 March 2010

Tadawul’s First ETF



Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul has successfully launched their first ETF (exchange traded fund), Falcom Saudi Equity ETF (Falcom 30).  As per Tadawul’s description, FALCOM Saudi Equity ETF aims to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation and growth. The Fund passively invests in the listed Saudi equities in order to achieve the results that correspond to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Benchmark Index.
The funded has ended its first trading day with 12.8 million shares traded at a value of SAR271.3 million. The NAV increased by 4.5% while the Tadawul index was down 0.09%. At first I thought that the ETF should mirror the Tadawul index, then I found out that it has its own index which 30 stocks that have the following criteria:
  1. – Sharia compliant as per Falcom’s Sharia screening.
  2. – For each stock to be eligible, non-trading days in the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) must not exceed 7 trading days during the past quarter.
  3. – Top 30 floating market capitalization stocks. The stocks should also be member of Tadawul public indices.
The following tables shows the current index composition:
Tadawul SymbolISINCompany NameTrading Name
1020SA0007879055Bank AlJaziraBJAZ
1120SA0007879113Al Rajhi BankAl Rajhi
1140SA000A0D9HK3BANK AlbiladAL Bilad
2350SA000A0MQCJ2Saudi Kayan Petrochemical CompanySaudi Kayan
2060SA0007879170National Industrialization CoIndustrialization
2250SA000A0B89Q3Saudi Industrial Investment GroupSIIG
2290SA000A0HNF36Yanbu National Petrochemical CompanyYANSAB
1211SA123GA0ITH7Saudi Arabian Mining CompanyMA’ADEN
2380SA120GAH5617Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical CoPetro Rabigh
1150SA122050HV19Alinma BankAlinma
2010SA0007879121Saudi Basic Industries CorpSABIC
2020SA0007879139Saudi Arabia Fertilizers CoSAFCO
2260SA000A0B63Y2Sahara Petrochemical CoSahara Petrochemical
2310SA000A0KFKK0Saudi International Petrochemical CoSipchem
2330SA000A0LE310Advanced Polypropylene CompanyAPPC
3020SA0007879451Yamamah Saudi Cement Co. LtdYamamah Cement
3030SA0007879469Saudi Cement CompanySaudi Cement
3040SA0007879493The Qassim Cement CoQassim Cement
3050SA0007879501Southern Province Cement CoSouthern Cement
4190SA000A0BLA62Jarir Marketing CoJarir
5110SA0007879550Saudi Electricity CompanySaudi Electricity
2050SA0007879162JSavola GroupSAVOLA Group
2280SA000A0ETHT1Almarai CompanyAlmarai
7010SA0007879543Saudi TeleComSTC
7020SA000A0DM9P2Etihad Etisalat CoEtihad Etisalat
7030SA121053DR18Mobile Telecommunications Company Saudi ArabiaZain KSA
4100SA0007879659Makkah Construction & Development CoMakkah
4250SA000A0MR864Jabal Omar Development CompanyJabal Omar
4300SA11U0S23612Dar Alarkan Real Estate Development CompanyDar Al Arkan
4030SA0007870054The National Shipping Co. of Saudi ArabiaShipping
What is an ETF?
“ETFs are investment funds divided into equal units traded on the exchange during trading time, similar to stocks. ETFs enjoy advantages of both mutual funds and stocks.
Like other investment funds ETFs are composed of a basket of assets (listed companies shares), however unlike mutual funds ETFs are traded on the exchange. ETFs are more transparent since they track the movement of the underlying assets index and investing in the index by the same proportions. It is easier for investor to measure the performance of the ETF by tracking the movement of the underlying assets index. ETF units are traded by Bids and Asks during trading time.” (Tadawul.com.sa)
Difference between ETFs, mutual funds and stocks:
CategoryETFsMutual FundsStocks
TransparencyMoreLessMore
FlexibilityMoreLessMore
CostLessMoreLess
DiversificationMoreMoreLess

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