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minimize the risk. Controversies pertaining to the role of gold and its stability to diversify the investment portfolio had … studies by grounding them more solidly on reality. The theory of Markowitz 1952 in the context of investment portfolio urged … the investor ‘not to put all eggs in one basket’ implying to diversify their investment portfolio as a mechanism to …
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Increasingly Islamic financial institutions are being pressured by critics to offer profit and loss sharing (PLS) financing for the purpose of entrepreneurial development. We believe the growth of PLS can be incentivized by increasing the participation of Islamic asset managers and mutual funds...
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Firm-level analysis of the cost of equity is essential for many financial decision makings, capital structure choice, capital budgeting analysis, performance assessment and firm valuation. This study aims to shed some light on the determinants of cost of equity by analyzing Shariah compliant...
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Islamic equity portfolios work with a smaller investment universe given the filtering of non-Shari’ah compliant stocks … affects risk-adjusted returns. We employ a number of methods, namely construction of efficient frontiers, time-varying maximum … relative investment performance between Islamic and conventional portfolios such as portfolio constraints, length of investment …
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The paper is the first attempt to evaluate the role of gold as a hedge (negative or low correlation with equities in normal market conditions) and safe haven (negative or low correlation in times of market turbulence) by using the daily data for gold and Shariah-compliant equities ranging from...
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declines, since these stock markets are commonly exposed to systematic risk(beta). An increasing integration and stronger co …
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revealed the same for the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in Malaysia. This paper examines the volatility and stability of … law) investor may be limited in the selection of investment assets, investing in all three islamic MREITs concurrently …
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among various markets in order to diversify risk and derive high return. In a co-movement analysis a consideration that is …
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different investment horizons/holding periods of stock (e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) The overall result driven is that … equity markets for up to six-month investment holding periods, in general, the possibility of portfolio diversification … heterogeneous investment horizons. …
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traders to make decision about their portfolio diversification, risk management and asset allocation. Despite the growing …
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