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Investment principles and strategies of faith‐based funds

Boasson, Emil; Boasson, Vigdis; Cheng, Joseph - In: Managerial Finance 32 (2006) 10, pp. 837-845

Purpose – To examine the rationale for the investment principles adopted by faith‐based funds from a biblical perspective and to evaluate the performance of faith‐based ethical funds. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐factor Carhart model is applied to examine the risk‐adjusted...

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Empirical testing of the loss provisions of banks in the GCC region

Zoubi, Taisier A.; Al‐Khazali, Osamah - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 7, pp. 500-511

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the factors which affect loss provision for loans and investment in Murabaha, Musharka, and Mudarabah for banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The effect of prior period earnings, legal and statutory reserves, size of the bank,...

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Do macroeconomic factors subsume market anomalies in long investment horizons?

Li, Wen‐Shen; Ghon Rhee, S.; Wang, Jane‐Sue - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 8, pp. 534-552

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to examine whether macroeconomic variables could subsume the size and book‐to‐market (BM) anomalies for longer‐return intervals using Tokyo Stock Exchange‐listed stocks. Design/methodology/approach – The Fama‐MacBeth cross‐sectional...

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Do momentum strategies work? Australian evidence

Drew, Michael E.; Veeraraghavan, Madhu; Ye, Min - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 10, pp. 772-787

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the profitability of momentum investment strategy and the predictive power of trading volume for equities listed in the Australian Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach – Following the Lee and Swaminathan's approach, portfolios on...

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Real investment and stock prices in the USA

Laopodis, Nikiforos T. - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2008) 1, pp. 78-100

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine the relationship between real investment and stock prices for the USA for 1960‐2005 in view of distinct economic regimes during the 40‐year period. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs simple models of investment, checks...

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Faculty practices in undergraduate investments courses

Waggle, Doug; Moon, Gisung - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) 5, pp. 461-471

investments. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 101 syllabi of the first investments course taught in various AACSB … components and their weights, and course contents based on various investments topics. Findings – Classroom practices of … investments professors differ considerably. There is virtually nothing that is universally applied by investments faculty. There …

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Substituting corporate saving for personal saving

Dwayne Barney, L.; Schooley, Diane K.; White, Harry - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) 8, pp. 682-690

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that savers may be substituting equity capital gains from stockholdings for traditional measures of personal saving. The analysis also aims to investigate dividend yield (DY) as a signal to investors about corporate saving rates...

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On the interactions of financing and investment decisions

Bae, Sung C. - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) 8, pp. 691-699

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relation between financial leverage and investment opportunities of Chinese industrial firms, which operate in a vastly different financial environment than USA and Japanese firms. Design/methodology/approach – Multivariate...

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Corporate governance and investment: domestic and foreign firms in Greece

Dedoussis, Elias; Papadaki, Afroditi - In: Managerial Finance 36 (2010) 3, pp. 174-200

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that the nationality of ownership affects investment through its interaction with return expectations and cash flow and to answer the question whether this is due to asymmetric information or managerial discretion problems....

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Investment spending and corporate governance

Dedoussis, Elias; Papadaki, Afroditi - In: Managerial Finance 36 (2010) 3, pp. 201-224

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present evidence on the effects that different ownership's structures of Greek listed firms exercise on the relation between investment and liquidity constraints. Design/methodology/approach – Corporate governance in Greece is primarily based on the...

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