Investigation of performance of Malaysian Islamic unit trust funds: Comparison with conventional unit trust funds

Managerial Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-153

  Abdullah, Fikriyah ^a   Hassan, Taufiq ^b   Mohamad, Shamsher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Financial risk; Fund management; Islam; Performance management; Unit trusts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015703197     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350710715854     Document Type: Article

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