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Does Faith Has Impact on Investment Return: Evidence From REITs

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Authors

Zhang, Weiwei 
Sun, TIezhu 
Wang, Zilong 
Kumar, Vishnu Raj 
Ma, Yechi 

Abstract

This paper investigates whether faith has impact on investment returns. Specifically, we choose the Shariah compliance and REITs investment for the purpose of investigation. Synthetic Shariah compliant portfolios are constructed with various interpretation of compliance. We compare the performance of Shariah compliant portfolios with US Equity REIT portfolio during 1993-2017 by examining the abnormal returns using CAPM and Carhart four-factor model. We find no evidence of underperformance or outperformance of the Shariah compliant investments. This is also true during the financial crisis periods which is confirmed by the sub-sample analysis. Our findings suggest that Shariah compliant REIT investor faces no cost or gain in his investments as a result of his faith.

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3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 3504 Commercial Services, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, Clinical Research

Journal Title

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Journal ISSN

1648-9179
1648-9179

Volume Title

23

Publisher

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University