This paper aims to investigate the extent of hedging and diversification opportunities available for an Australian investor who holds a portfolio consisting of Australian conventional and Islamic indices, crude oil, gold, Bitcoin, and the Australia-US exchange rate of daily data from 2011 to...

History witnesses that despite monometalism and bimetallism dominated by gold and silver playing important role of money in the past, later adopted system of trimetalism with another less valuable metal such as copper serving as loose change replaced it as being more practical. It is surprising...