The study investigates the mutual funds investment style in the Jordanian context. It uses monthly returns of five mutual funds from July 2000 to December 2009. To do so, it employs the 4-factors model with explanatory variables the market portfolio return, a small minus large capitalization...

Gold is an attractive investment vehicle for many people. Some risks of in investing in gold are surveyed. The price of gold and its fluctuation are examined which raises the concern to all short and long-term investors in gold. This prompts us to study what drives the price movements of gold....

Value investors generally characterize themselves as the grown ups in the investment world, unswayed by perceptions or momentum, and driven by fundamentals. While this may be true, at least in the abstract, there are at least three distinct strands of value investing. The first, passive value...

Investors need to understand the meaning of a number of basic performance statistics used to evaluate investments. These statistics are useful in pinpointing pertinent areas of investigation during investment due diligence reviews. However, past returns are in fact poor predictors of future...

Value investing is the age-old investment strategy that involves buying securities that appear cheap relative to some fundamental anchor. For equity investors that anchor is typically a measure of intrinsic value linked to financial statement variables. Recently, there has been much written...

The investment theory, in which the expected return varies cross-sectionally with investment, expected profitability, and expected growth, is a good start to understanding Graham and Dodd's (1934) Security Analysis. Empirically, the q^5 model goes a long way toward explaining prominent equity...

Researchers and investment professionals have argued that "value strategies" based on low price relative to earnings, dividends, book value and other fundamental measures, have outperformed the corresponding "growth strategies" and the market. In this study, we endeavor to explore this premise...

The alternative investments universe generally consists of investments outside of publicly traded real estate, equity and debt. It includes investments ranging from private commercial real estate, hedge funds and managed futures, liquid alternatives to illiquid private equity funds, and real...

This study is conducted to find out the factors contributing towards Investment Inertia among Investors in Pakistan in spite of the fact that there is choice overload regarding different investment alternatives and choices. One of the primary reasons behind the financial Crisis has been the...