Billions of dollars, across 131 countries, are invested in Islamic law-compliant funds that are often promoted as consistent with the spirit and overall objectives of Islam (Maqasid Al-Sharia), thereby indicating they are more socially responsible, less risky, and less prone to failure. The...

I find that economically meaningless index labels cause stock returns to covary in excess of fundamentals. S&P/Barra follow a simple mechanical procedure to define their Value and Growth indices. In so doing, they reclassify some stocks from Value to Growth even after their book-to-market ratios...

This paper aims to study how the stock market operates and the reasons for fluctuation in the stock market that wipes out investors' money in majority of cases. It tries to find out how the retail investor can easily decide which stock to invest so that he would have minimal effect of...

This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market valuation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...