The Islamic Economic Law Perspective on Sharia Mutual Fund Investment

Dynamics of Risk Perception Towards Mutual Fund Investment Decisions

The present paper measures the risk perception of the bank employees in respect of investment in mutual fund and to identify the factors affecting risk perception. The paper also attempts to find out the impact of these factors on overall risk perception. The study is based on primary data collected by using questionnaire from the bank employees in Tripura state of India. For the analysis of da...

Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context

The Investment Value of Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure

This paper uses disclosed mutual fund portfolio holdings to develop stock selection models. Our models aggregate portfolio holdings across mutual funds, weighted by their past performance, to predict future stock returns – an overweighting by successful managers, or an underweighting by unsuccessful managers is considered to be a signal that a stock is currently underpriced. We find that invest...

Mutual Fund Expense Disclosures: A Behavioral Perspective

Sharia Stock Screening: A Fund Manager's Conundrum

A fund manager has to abide by a set of business and financial parameters before selecting and including a particular stock in an Islamic fund portfolio. There are various Islamic screening methods followed by stock indices and banks, namely Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIMI), FTSE Global Islamic Index Series, S&P 500, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) and Accounting and Auditing ...