HSTECH

Hang Seng Tech Index ETF

DOUBTFUL — DATA INCOMPLETEetf

Is HSTECH Halal?

Hong Kong tech — some strong companies but index includes Alibaba/Tencent concerns.

What You Should Know

Hang Seng Tech tracks Hong Kong tech companies. The July 9, 2026 issuer holdings page confirms exposure across internet, fintech, cloud, e-commerce and autonomous-technology themes; fund-level financial fields are not exposed in a reproducible unit, so the quantitative record remains incomplete.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Alibaba's fintech arm (Ant Financial)
  • Tencent's gaming/social concerns
  • Fund-level financial placeholders are not evidence of a pass

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on Issuer product page figures for the period ended 2026-07-09; calculated 2026-07-15.

HKD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 1

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 1

Receivables + cash / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 1

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

Fund-level asset, debt, liquidity, receivable and income inputs are not reproducibly reported; look-through activity remains incomplete.

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

Placeholder proxy ratios are 0.00%, but the issuer page does not supply complete fund-level lines and the mixed underlying portfolio requires look-through review.

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

Placeholder proxy debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; complete fund-level data are unavailable.

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

A licensed historical fund look-through market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

HSTECH tracks the Hang Seng TECH Index across internet, fintech, cloud, e-commerce and autonomous-technology themes. The retained qualitative DOUBTFUL verdict reflects mixed fintech, gaming and platform activity.

Limitation: The issuer page does not provide a universal underlying prohibited-revenue numerator or complete fund-level financial statement for this record.

Purification

The issuer product page does not provide a universal underlying prohibited-income allocation; ZakatInvest does not invent a purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • The July 9, 2026 issuer page provides current HSTECH holdings and fund characteristics but does not expose a complete fund-level balance-sheet statement in a reproducible unit for this record.
  • A totalAssets value of 1 is a documented placeholder, not a claim about the fund's actual size; unreported cash, debt, receivables and operating revenue remain zero placeholders.
  • HSTECH is a broad technology index ETF, not a Sharia-screened product. Its fintech, gaming, e-commerce and social-platform exposure remains qualitatively mixed.
  • Fund-level placeholders are not evidence of a quantitative pass or official classification.

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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