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Coskewness in Islamic, Socially Responsible and Conventional Mutual Funds: An Asset Pricing Test

Authors: Abul Hassan; M. Kabir Hassan; J. Francisco Rubio; Bora Ozkan;

Coskewness in Islamic, Socially Responsible and Conventional Mutual Funds: An Asset Pricing Test

Abstract

Intuition suggests that constraint investment strategies will result in losses due to a limited portfolio allocation. Two types of constrained assets have been particularly growing over the last few decades: Islamic Mutual Funds and Socially Responsible Mutual Funds. Although research regarding the performance of these types of constrained investments has been performed, little attention has been given to their relative performance. In this paper we assess, and rank, the relative performance of Islamic, Socially Responsible, and conventional mutual funds from 11 Islamic markets and the United States by expanding the traditional mean-variance frontier to account for higher moments; constrained assets tend to be smaller and skewed in nature, thus violating the normality assumption under the mean-variance frontier. We find that controlling for skewness risk, by using an unconditional coskewness measure, has the power to improve asset pricing tests by expanding the mean-variance frontier specification. We find supporting evidence suggesting that Islamic mutual funds perform better than Socially Responsible Investing, which in turn outperform conventional mutual funds.

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