ARCH

Arch Capital Group

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Is ARCH Halal?

Conventional insurance, reinsurance and mortgage-insurance underwriting is a core activity, and the current liquidity screen also fails.

What You Should Know

Arch Capital's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $81,446 million, senior notes of $2,729 million, cash of $914 million, total investments of $46,786 million, receivables of $9,422 million and quarterly total revenue of $4,521 million. Debt/assets is 3.35%, liquidity/assets is 58.57% and receivables plus cash/assets is 12.69%; gross interest income is not separately disclosed. Arch's core commercial insurance, reinsurance and mortgage-insurance underwriting is a conventional insurance activity with gharar concerns, so the qualitative business screen fails regardless of the asset ratios.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Conventional property, casualty, reinsurance and mortgage-insurance underwriting is the core business
  • Liquidity/assets is 58.57%, above the examined 33.333% limits
  • Large investment portfolio and float generate investment income
  • Gross interest income and a fixed purification percentage are not separately established

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
3.35%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,729 / 81,446

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
58.57%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

47,700 / 81,446

Receivables + cash / assets
12.69%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

10,336 / 81,446

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 3.35%, liquidity/assets is 58.57% and receivables plus cash/assets is 12.69%; liquidity exceeds the examined FTSE limit, and the conventional-insurance business screen fails.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Liquidity/assets is 58.57%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; conventional insurance also fails the qualitative business screen.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Liquidity/assets is 58.57%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is not an official SAC classification and the business screen fails.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

No licensed 24- or 36-month market-cap series is stored; the asset-based and business-activity screens already fail.

Business-activity disclosure

Arch Capital's core operations are commercial insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance underwriting. Conventional insurance is a material core activity and is treated as a failed business-activity screen in this qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every investment or underwriting line to a universal prohibited-revenue taxonomy, so no separate prohibited-revenue percentage is asserted.

Purification

Investment income is disclosed in aggregate but a gross interest-income numerator and scholar-approved purification percentage are not separately established; the core business screen already fails.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • March 31, 2026 figures are USD millions from Arch's Q1 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Senior notes are $2,729 million; cash is $914 million and total investments are $46,786 million. Premiums receivable, reinsurance recoverable, contractholder receivables and receivable for securities sold total $9,422 million.
  • Total revenue is $4,521 million, including $3,986 million of net premiums earned and $408 million of net investment income.
  • The $3,986 million non-compliant-revenue input is a transparent core-activity proxy for net premiums earned, not a universal prohibited-revenue taxonomy; the filing does not allocate every line by school or standard.
  • The filing does not provide a reproducible gross interest-income numerator for the financial screen.
  • Arch's core insurance, reinsurance and mortgage-insurance underwriting activities are conventional insurance activities; the business screen is therefore failed independently of the asset ratios.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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