IEMG

iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

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Is IEMG Halal?

Core EM ETF — same concerns as EEM.

What You Should Know

IEMG is not Sharia-screened. iShares reported financials at 18.48% of the portfolio on 13 July 2026, with every underlying issuer still requiring separate review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Financials were 18.48% of the portfolio
  • No Sharia screening
  • Underlying issuers require screening

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on Daily issuer holdings and net-assets page figures for the period ended 2026-07-13; calculated 2026-07-14.

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

0 / 151,717.58

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

0 / 151,717.58

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

0 / 151,717.58

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

Reported fund-level proxy ratios are below the examined asset limits, but a comparable prohibited-income numerator is unavailable.

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

The available fund-level proxy ratios are below the examined MSCI asset limits; the underlying portfolio has no universal prohibited-income classification.

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

The available fund-level proxy ratios are below the examined Malaysia limits; look-through activity remains incomplete.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series and fund-level prohibited-income convention are not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

IEMG is a broad emerging-markets pass-through ETF tracking a conventional index. The portfolio has substantial financial-sector exposure and is not Sharia-screened.

Limitation: The issuer discloses portfolio weights and fund net assets but no universal prohibited-revenue allocation across every underlying issuer.

Purification

IEMG passes through distributions from underlying issuers; no scholar-approved purification percentage is disclosed.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • iShares reported USD 151,717,579,597 net assets as of 13 July 2026.
  • The same page reported 2,826 holdings and sector weights of information technology 39.79%, financials 18.48%, consumer discretionary 8.35% and industrials 7.66%; these are look-through observations, not a universal Sharia screen.
  • The issuer page does not provide a school-neutral prohibited-revenue allocation or fund-level debt, cash and receivable lines; zeroes mean not separately reported, not that every underlying issuer has zero exposure.

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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