The Company shall apply the following rules in the valuation of its assets:

1. The Company shall invest all their assets in accordance with the “prudent person principle” and shall be in accordance with the considerations of the Islamic Shari’a.
    
2. With respect to the whole portfolio of assets, the Company shall only invest in assets and instruments, whose risks can be adequately identified, measured, monitored, managed, controlled and reported, and appropriately take into account in the assessment of their overall solvency needs by the Company.
    
3. All assets, in particular those covering the Minimum Capital Requirement, Minimum Guarantee Fund and the Solvency Capital Requirement, shall be invested in such a manner to ensure the security, quality, liquidity and profitability of the portfolio as a whole. In addition the localization of those assets shall be such as to ensure their availability.
    
4. Without prejudice to paragraph (2) above, and with respect to assets held in respect of Takaful Insurance of Persons where the investment risk is borne by the participants, the following shall apply:
   
   a) Where the benefits provided by a contract are directly linked to the value of unit-linked funds, or to the value of assets contained in an internal fund held by the Company, usually divided into units, the technical provisions with respect to those benefits must be represented as closely as possible by those units or, in the case where units are not established, by those assets.
   
   b) Where the benefits provided by a contract are directly linked to a share index or some other reference value other than those referred to in subparagraph (a) above, the technical provisions with respect to those benefits must be represented as closely as possible either by the units deemed to represent the reference value or, in the case where units are not established, by assets of appropriate security and marketability which correspond as closely as possible with those on which the particular reference value is based.
   
   c) Where the benefits referred to above include a guarantee of investment performance or some other guaranteed benefit, the assets held to cover the corresponding additional technical provisions shall be subject to paragraph (3) of this Article.
    
5. With consideration to paragraph (2) and with respect to assets, Regulations Pertinent to the Basis of Investing the Rights of the Participants - Takaful shall apply.
    
6. Companies must comply with the detailed provisions regarding the general rules for asset valuation as prescribed in the Addendum of this Article attached to these regulations.