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...

This study measures and compares the risk and return of the two banking streams i.e. the Conventional banking system and the Islamic banking system. Conventional banking system being the most dominating banking system has its strengths and in its competition Islamic banking has evolved and is in...

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...

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...