Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Chinese mutual funds
during the period of January 2000 to July 2013. Emerging market funds provide investors …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the return performance and persistence of
ethical and conventional mutual funds during two extreme events, the Asian and the global …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of selected conventional
and Islamic unit trust companies in Malaysia during the period 2002 to 2005 …

This study evaluates overall monthly performances of 128 Islamic mutual funds (IMFs) for the
period of January 1990 to April 2009. It employs Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen ratios to the …

Portfolio theory, created by economists, was a breakthrough in financial economics. This
theory looks at the stock market as a whole and analyses how, for a given rate of expected …

The Malaysian unit trust industry has been growing positively since the introduction of
Amanah Saham Nasional and Amanah Saham Bumiputra in early 1980s and early 1990s …

This paper investigates the relationship between unit trusts invested domestically and those
invested overseas. The performance of unit trusts investing overseas is compared to unit …

This study examines the extent to which fund characteristics contributes to explaining fund
returns differentiated by managers' stock picking and market timing abilities. The findings …

By focusing on the Malaysian Islamic unit trusts over the period of January 2000 to
December 2009, this study attempts to analyse the performance of the Islamic unit trusts in …

This study examines the relationship between fund performance and fund characteristics.
The fund performance is measured by fund return and its determinants are measured by …