This paper investigates whether an Islamic screened benchmark index shows a different risk adjusted performance in comparison to a non-screened benchmark index. In contrast to other papers this study analyzes daily observations in the years from 2007 to 2012, a period heavily affected by the financial crisis. The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Jensen measure of abnormal returns are used to estimate and compare the indexes mean risk-adjusted returns. The results show that the Islamic index does not reveal any different level of daily mean risk-adjusted returns compared to the conventional non-screened index. Hence, Muslims who align their investments according to the teachings of Islam are not worse off than non-restricted investors following the screened Islamic index.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-20110 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | elf, andreas, Gonzalez Riffo, Eduardo |
| Publisher | Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Nationalekonomi, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Nationalekonomi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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