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Islamic fund & wealth management: a way forward
Get PDFWith the overwhelming growth in the global Islamic fund and wealth management sector due to the increasing affluence of Muslim communities wishing to take part in investing surplus funds in Sharīʿah-compliant manner and the existence of non-Muslim wishing to diversify investment via Sharīʿah-compliant funds, more innovative products are being offered. One of them is the Islamic Wealth Management, a relatively new area seen to have great potential to cater to these growing needs. Various measures need to be engineered in order to embark into phases of development and one of them is to increase public awareness. Moving forward, this book comes into existence with a compilation of selected works and researches presented in an international conference, sponsored by the Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) with the theme of Islamic Fund and Wealth Management: A Way Forward.
Among the related researches are on sovereign Ṣukūk. The issuance and trading process of Malaysian sovereign Ṣukūk is discussed as well as the structures commonly used in the Ṣukūk issuance to address the current trend of demand for Malaysian sovereign Ṣukūk by foreign investors. Nevertheless, the role of Ṣukūk in financing the state budget deficit in Indonesia is still not significant compared to government bonds due to some challenges. Waqf is also of great interest among the Islamic wealth management community, how Waqf when integrates with element of crowd-funding can become a sustainable source of funding for the development of Waqf lands that have been left idle due to financing constraint.
Retirement plan being part of wealth management witnesses the harshness facing remisers due to market downturn and the already bearish market. A voluntary long-term private investment scheme (PRS) has been suggested as a retirement planning for remisiers. Its benefit is discussed in great detail with the hope that the potential of PRS becoming a voluntary long-term investment scheme that supplements retirement savings is enhanced.
The book also discusses the optimal level of gold as a reserve asset to be held in portfolios of central banks in order to enhance stability of nations in times of economic, financial and/or geopolitical turmoil given gold’s characteristics as a safe haven asset and a store of value. The nature of gold investment in Malaysia is also discussed, its potentials, operations and the Sharīʿah related issues that can benefit the investors, financial institutions and the policy-makers in Malaysia. The performances of both Sharīʿah compliant and non-Sharīʿah compliant stocks are also discussed in order for investors to have good portfolio selection based on either the choices or the religiosity of investors.
Many more issues are discussed and dealt with in this compilation. The choice between Sharīʿah compliant and non-Sharīʿah compliant stocks, discussion on the factors that influence people to choose Employment Providence Fund’s (EPF) Simpanan Sharīʿah retirement fund as to assist the practitioners and policy makers in designing more effective strategies to promote Sharīʿah-compliant retirement plan, an examination on the importance of Sharīʿah Governance Framework (SGF) in Government Linked Investment Company (GLIC), the surplus management in Pakistan takaful industry with regards to regulations and practices. There is also discussion on how Islamic trust services can serve as a viable Sharīʿah-compliant option which helps to smooth the process and assure that fair estate distribution can be executed to legal heirs, on the challenges in the current estate planning and current resolutions on solutions of estate planning and how Sharīʿah-compliant models of Islamic trust services based on Hibah Mu’allaqÉh and Trust with Declaration of Hibah (DoH) are proposed in providing a more efficient estate planning and management.
The issue of hedging in Malaysia is also put forward where asymmetric hedging model is found to be more effective than a symmetric hedging model and hedging is dynamic and effective in the Malaysian derivative market. The understanding of Islamic crowd-funding as an alternative instrument of financing for cooperatives’ operation and execution of specific projects is also one of the main interests in this compilation and the significant differences between risk and return and how Sharīʿah penny stocks portfolio is considered better in terms of risk adjusted return compared to the conventional portfolio. Sharī‘ah-compliant issues in relation to Islamic wealth management is also discussed using Maqāṣid-based perspective with examples from a case study of Malaysia. There is also a discussion on how consecutive debt-taking behaviour can elevate financial well-being and lifestyle satisfaction of the households. Nevertheless, regular charity-giving is identified as a must in lifestyle for such outcomes to be achieved among the low-income households. Financial education is without doubt proven to have the role in executing these outcomes.
This compilation also provides information on debt from Sharīʿah perspective and the issues related to the practicality of the Debt Management Program (DMP), unravels the grey areas which require future focus of researchers and provides information on debt from Sharīʿah perspective and the issues related to the practicality of the DMP. Study on India revealed that political challenge, lack of confidence, awareness, education, lack of demand, and lack of human capital, religious-based terminologies, lack of proper Sharīʿah governance, and absence of marketing strategies have been identified as the key challenges for the success of Sharīʿah mutual funds in India. The debt determinants of Sharīʿah approved firms in Malaysia as well as the effect of industry type in determining the debt level of the firms are also addressed as well.
This compilation is without doubt a success with the contributions from selected authors and co-authors on wide range of issues related to Islamic fund and wealth management locally and globally. It is hoped that this compilation be of beneficial tool at hand to those responsible parties in this area in order to enhance further the Islamic Fund and Wealth Management sector especially in Malaysia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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