Stocks are generally considered to be a good hedge against inflation because of their tendency to move together. This paper examines long term relationship between inflation and stock returns in BRICS markets using panel data for the period from March 2000 to September 2013. Correlation results...

In a first of its kind, this paper examines the issue of sectoral efficiency of the Indian Stock Market. For this, daily data for 11 sectoral indices on NSE viz. Auto, Bank, Energy, Finance, FMCG, IT, Media, Metal, Pharma, PSU Banks and Realty Index have been used. The study period spans from...

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), which integrates social and environmental criteria into traditional investment decision process, has emerged as a new concept in investing, especially in the wake of growing concerns for corporate social responsibility. This paper provides an extensive...

Over the past few years the concept of green investing has received considerable attention and has led to the formation of different forms of green investment avenues/portfolios, mutual funds, index, etc. This paper examines whether green stocks portfolio outperforms non-green stocks portfolios...

This paper examines the long run and short run dynamics among oil prices, exchange rates and stock prices in India (one of the fastest growing emerging markets in the world) over the most recent 15 year period 1997-2011. Using Johansen's Co integration test we find the existence of long run...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

Investors step into the stock market with the objective of earning smart returns on their investments. The stock market can help in realising these goals of the investors, however, all investments are subject to risks. The origin of the risk is the uncertainty of realising the desired returns on...

Companies have invested heavily in competency-based HR systems without having established guidelines on its implementation. This research studies the adoption of the competency framework in HR, along with perceived organisation performance (POP) and financial organisation performance (FOP). The...