Abstract
slamic finance industry has been expanded in the last decade and has
branched out itself from banking to other financial sectors like Islamic
Assets Management and Islamic Insurance Companies. Islamic finance
industry growth over the past decade is impressive comparative to
conventional sector particularly at the time of financial crisis. The focus of
this research study is to assess the performance of Islamic and Conventional
mutual funds in Pakistan for the period of 7 years ranging from 2007 to 2013.
The research also studied the impact of NAV on mutual funds and how the
volatility influences the Islamic and Conventional mutual funds. This research
is based on the sample of equity funds using all Asset Management
Companies in Pakistan on the basis of availability of each fund‘s NAV. The
findings suggest that mutual funds performance led to mixed trend. The
results indicates that portfolio returns of Islamic funds are more clustered
around mean that shows the level of consistency in the performance of the
Islamic funds, whereas portfolio returns of the Conventional funds are more
volatile and inconsistent comparatively. Concerning overall performance,
Islamic funds performed better than Conventional funds.
Muhammad Mahmood Shah Khan, Syeda Hameeda Batool Gillani, Sana Mansoor. (2015) Performance of Islamic Mutual Funds: A Comparison with Conventional Mutual Funds, Islamic Banking and Finance Review, Volume 2, Issue 1.
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