Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of socially responsible funds by closely examining funds' investment styles. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply William Sharpe's method of style analysis to evaluate the performance of 94 US socially responsible...

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Long-term throughput, as a key performance indicator of a stochastic flow line, is affected by numerous parameters describing the features of the flow line, such as processing time and buffer size. Fast and accurate evaluation methods for a given set of values for those parameters are a...

Purpose There are a number of differences in the current Sharīʿah screening guidelines formulated by Sharīʿah scholars associated with world-renowned index providers and financial institutions. The purpose of this study is to highlight the consequences of such differences on the portfolio...

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