Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the return and dividend characteristics of two different types of Malaysian real estate investment trust (REIT) series, namely, conventional and Islamic, against macroeconomic variables over the period 2011-2017....

This paper investigates asset pricing anomalies in sharia-compliant (SC) stocks in the US market, focusing on whether dividend-oriented strategies can yield significant alphas. SC stocks adhere to Islamic principles, avoiding activities such as the production and sale of alcoholic beverages,...