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Assessing financial and macroeconomic factors influencing the Islamic Real Estate Investment Trusts stock return in Malaysia

Choo, William Keng Soon

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The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (i-REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes i-REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of i-REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the i-REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to study the driving financial and macroeconomic interaction force with i-REIT stock return, which in turn further contributes to the Islamic finance literature. This study was confined to nine study variables and two latent which the financial and macroeconomic factors. The financial factors comprise the long-term bond yield, systematic risk, stock mark.....

Thesis Published 2021 4716 hits Available

The principles of Malaysia Islamic real estate investment trust: contemporary Islamic core values

Choo, William Keng Soon

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The Islamic capital market operates in parallel with convention capital market in expanding, deepening, and broadening Malaysia financial system. The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (Islamic REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes Islamic REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of Islamic REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the Islamic REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to review the Malaysia Islamic REIT framework to thrive and revitalize structures conforms to the shariah laws and the guideline issued by security commission of Malaysia. This inevitably means the.....

Article Published 2021 1347 hits Available

The co-integration and causality effect between global covid-19 pandemic and the stock market return in Malaysia: An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach

William Choo Keng Soon

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The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most unparalleled disasters the world has ever seen. Previously, the global community has faced the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), and Severe Acute Respiratory (SARS). However, the tremendous rate of infection created by the global COVID-19 pandemic is unmatchable with its rapid spread all over the world. Therefore, it is considered as a Black Swan event as created previously by the 2008 financial crisis, SARS, and 9/11 terrorist attack. All these events have triggered panic selling that affected the confidence of investors and businesses. Subsequently, stock market performance has affected the choice of investment decisions that translated into stock return. Therefore, this paper was undertaken to investigate the co-integration and causality relationship among global COVID-19 daily infected cases, COVID-19 recoveries rate, COVID-19 death rate, investor sentiment, government policy, foreign exchange rate, Malaysia.....

Article Published 2024 1046 hits Available

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