The main purpose of this study is to examine the mutual fund industry of Pakistan, to examine the assets allocation pattern of mutual funds, how efficiently they are allocated into various assets categories and how investors base their future investment decisions either on past performance or on...

Islamic finance has shown tremendous growth in last two decades. By the end of December 2008, in more than 50 countries approximately 300 institutions are operating and they manage funds of US $951 billion. As IFIs are entering into equity market for investment hence guidance in the field of...

Shari'a compliant stocks are a recent development under Islamic finance, whereby stocks are screened through Shari’a compliance filters. This study is conducted to understand and document the important Real Sector macroeconomic factors contributing in determining stock prices of Shari’a...

Purpose: This study is intends to understand and document the impact of market-based — market returns and momentum — as well as firm-specific — size, book to market ratio (B/M), price to earnings ratio (PER) and cash flow (CF) — factors on pricing of Shari'a compliant securities as...

Shari'a compliant stocks are the recent development under Islamic finance, whereby stocks are screened through Shari'a compliance filters. This study is conducted to understand and document the important monetary factors contributing in determining stock prices of Shari'a compliant companies in...

This study documents the asset pricing mechanism of Sharīʿah compliant securities listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. We select the CAPM market model to test for the impact in variations of stock returns on a sample of Sharīʿah-compliant companies on ten years monthly data (2001-10). We...