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This study aims to analyse the current performance of unit trust funds between conventional and Islamic funds using data envelopment analysis because most Malaysians are incapable to distinguish between conventional and Islamic unit trust funds ...
Nahamizun Maamor +3 more
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Climate change poses new challenges for portfolio management. In our not-yet-low carbon world, investors face a trade-off between minimizing their exposure to climate risks and maximizing the benefits of portfolio diversification.
Marco Ceccarelli +2 more
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Mutual Funds’ Performance Sensitivity to Funds’ Attributes. Case Study: Saudi Mutual Funds [PDF]
This study contributes to the academic literature on faith-based mutual funds, by offering a comparative investigation of Islamic vs. conventional funds’ performance sensitivity to changes in a list of seventeen relevant funds’ attributes, all in the ...
Karim Soussou, Abdelwahed Omri
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ISLAMIC VS CONVENTIONAL FUNDS WITHIN THE FAMILY: SELECTIVITY SKILLS AND MARKET TIMING ABILITY
The aim of the study is to compare the performance of Islamic mutual fund (IMF) and conventional mutual fund (CMF) within the same family, in addition, to examine the performance of fund family in Malaysia for the period from 2007 to 2018. The study used
Anas Ahmad Bani Atta +1 more
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In this study, an attempt has been made to find out why investors still prefer broker-sold fund over direct-sold fund despite the superior performance of the latter.
Jayanta Kumar Seal, Arunima Paul
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Network of public equity funds and investment performance in South Korea [PDF]
Using overlapped portfolio data on public equity funds in Korea, the authors construct several types of fund-stock weighted bipartite networks and measure fund network centrality.
Yongwon Kim, Inwook Song, Young Kyu Park
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This paper reflects on the ongoing challenges presented by certain employers who, whilst deducting occupational retirement fund contributions from their employees' salaries, fail to pay over those contributions to the relevant occupational retirement ...
Thulani Nkosi
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Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds [PDF]
This article investigates the performance of funds of hedge funds. A variety of methods is used to shed more light on different performance aspects. Multi-factor and single-factor models are used to explain excess fund of hedge funds returns. Cross-sectional regression analyses indicate that larger funds of hedge funds exhibit higher returns, lower ...
Ammann, Manuel, Moerth, Patrick
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Investing in virtue and frowning at vice? Lessons from the global economic and financial crisis
Socially responsible mutual funds (SRMF) and the "antisocially conscious", Vitium Global Fund Barrier Fund (formerly known as the Vice Fund, the term used in this paper) returns, volatility patterns, and causal effects are examined in this study within ...
Lucia Morales , Daniel Rajmil
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Walk the talk: ESG mutual fund voting on shareholder proposals
We document that U.S. mutual funds with investment objectives designated as “Sustainable Investment Overall” by Morningstar (ESG funds) are more likely than other mutual funds to vote in support of environmental and social (ES) shareholder proposals and ...
Shane S. Dikolli +3 more
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