A major issue facing the investors in the financial markets of the contemporary world is to identify whether the observed stock market fluctuations are due mainly to contagion or fundamentals. This is due to the fact that if the fluctuations are mainly due to a contagion, then it is something...

The focus of this paper is to investigate the potential for portfolio diversification strategies based on investing across international markets or economic sectors, using Malaysia as a case study. Analysing the comovement and correlation between returns and volatilities of the different markets...

This paper investigates the co-movement of nine Islamic Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) returns using wavelet coherence methods. The results tend to indicate consistent co-movement between most of the ETF returns especially in the long run. The study also uncovers evidence of wide variation of...