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EPF launches 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 🌍Syariah Private Equity SMA fund with US$600m allocation

Updated: Mar 16, 2021

26/2/2021: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) said it had launched a Syariah Private Equity (PE) direct and co-investment Separate Managed Account (SMA) fund with an allocation of US$600 million (RM2.43 billion).


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"This is the World's 1st and Largest Syariah Private Equity SMA fund"


Through the allocation, the EPF will have three SMAs of US$200 million each to be managed by BlackRock, HarbourVest Partners LLC and Partners Group AG.


The investment period is from 2021 to 2025, while the fund term will run from 2021 to 2031, subject to further extensions with the EPF’s consent.


The SMAs were structured based on either a wakalah structure, or a combination of both Wakalah and Murabahah structures, subjected to syariah investment guidelines.



Chief EPF Officer Tunku Alizakri Alias

“We are proud to be the first institutional investor to establish a syariah-compliant PE direct and co-investment fund, and this is the largest of its kind globally, with a global investment mandate. The EPF has been working on this initiative since 2018 as we seek to diversify our investment portfolio to ensure we can provide sustainable returns to our members,”




“The EPF has great confidence in the three asset managers to carry out direct and co-investment activities on the fund’s behalf as they have a long history of investing in PE and several exposures in managing syariah-compliant mandates,” Chief EPF Officer Tunku Alizakri Alias said.


The EPF’s PE arm has a global fund exposure with strategies covering growth, buyout, middle-market capitalised and large-market capitalised strategies, totaling 106 active investments with a total commitment of US$12.05 billion.


As of the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), the top three regions in which the EPF had invested under PE mandates were:

  1. North America (42%)

  2. Europe (21%)

  3. Greater China (12%)


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