Greener Journal of Business and Management Studies

Greener Journal of  Business and Management Studies  Vol. 2 (1), pp. 012-021, January 2012

 ISSN: 2276-7827 

Research Paper

*Annuar Md Nassir¹, Siti Qurratul Aini Shadi² and Mohamad Ali Abdul Hamid³

¹Universiti Putra Malaysia

²Graduate student, Graduate School of Management, UPM

³King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia

Abstract:

In this study, the performance of Malaysian Islamic unit trust is investigated based on consistency of ranking and can be considered as an alternative approach in evaluating portfolio performance. The Sign Test is employed to investigate consistency of ranking. The results of this study indicate that only four unit trusts namely Public Islamic Equity and CIMB Islamic Sukuk (both for short term investment) and Public Islamic Balance and CIMB Islamic Balance (both for medium term investment) exhibit non-random behavior in ranking which implies that the two unit trusts exhibit consistency and predictability in ranking. All other unit trusts show that the consistency in ranking is random and unpredictable consistent with the efficient market hypothesis.

Key words: market efficiency, unit trust, consistency, ranking

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