Comparative risk adjusted performance of Islamic, socially responsible and conventional funds: Evidence from United Kingdom

Economic Modelling

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 233-243

  Reddy, Krishna ^a   Mirza, Nawazish ^b   Naqvi, Bushra ^c   Fu, Mingli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b SP Jain School of Global Management   (Singapore)

^c LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Islamic funds; Mutual Funds; Risk adjusted performance; Socially responsible funds

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025662240     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2017.07.007     Document Type: Article

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