This article investigates the impact of gold in portfolios in distinguishing between Islamic and conventional stocks as well as between risk-averse and risk-seeking investors, while considering sectorial specificities. Using daily data from the Dow Jones indexes and the London gold market over...

En finance islamique, l’investissement en bourse est autorisé sous certaines conditions. Le choix des valeurs boursières dans lesquelles il serait possible d’investir conformément à la Charia se fait selon des critères financiers et extra financiers. Ainsi, il convient de...

Despite the increasing attention to ethical investments, the empirical studies on Islamic indices are scarce. The main goal of this article is to investigate whether Dow Jones Islamic index 100 titans (DJI100) delivers persistent performance. Using the Carhart (1997) four-factor model, we...

Despite the increasing attention to ethical investments, the empirical studies on Islamic indices are scarce. Our article aims to contribute to the empirical literature by exploring the efficiency of these indices and their potential for diversification in comparison with the conventional...

The debate over the under-performance or the over-performance of Islamic funds is not over yet. Hence, our literature review exhibits that all the previous works studied the Islamic equity funds without exploring the persistence of their performance, even if this issue is very important to...

We extend the research on private equity by studying the drivers of LBO operating performance in Asia. We consider a large set of candidate drivers (financial, governance, macroeconomic, cultural, microeconomic and industry variables) and study their effects on performance over the short- and...