A comprehensive look at the essentials of Islamic capital markets

Bringing together theoretical and practical aspects of capital markets, Islamic Capital Markets offers readers a comprehensive insight into the institutions, instruments, and regulatory framework that comprise Islamic capital markets. Also exploring ideas about money, central banking, and economic growth theory and their role in Islamic capital markets, the book provides students and practitioners with essential information about the analytical tools of Islamic capital markets, serves as a guide to investing in Islamic assets, and examines risk management and the structure of Islamic financial products.

Author and Islamic finance expert Noureddine Krichene examines the development of leading Islamic capital markets, including Malaysia, looking at sukuks and stocks in detail and emphasizing valuation, duration, convexity, immunization, yield curves, forward rates, swaps, and risks. Analyzing stock markets, stock valuation, price-earnings ratio, market efficiency hypothesis, and equity premiums, the book addresses uncertainty in capital markets, portfolio diversification theory, risk-return trade-off, pricing of assets, cost of capital, derivatives and their role in hedging and speculation, the principle of arbitrage and replication, Islamic structured products, the financing of large projects, and more.

* Emphasizes both theoretical and practical aspects of capital markets, covering analytical concepts such as the theory of arbitrage, pricing of assets, capital market pricing model, Arrow-Debreu state prices, risk-neutral pricing, derivatives markets, hedging and risk management, and structured products

* Provides students and practitioners of finance with must-have information about the analytical tools employed in Islamic capital markets

* Examines all the most recent developments in major Islamic capital markets, including Malaysia

Discussing the advantages of Islamic capital markets and the prospects for their development, Islamic Capital Markets gives readers a fundamental grounding in the subject, with an emphasis on financial theory and real world practice.



Autorentext

DR. NOUREDDINE KRICHENE, PHD, earned a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught Islamic finance at the Global University, INCEIF, in Malaysia, and was an economist with the International Monetary Fund Economist Program from 1986 to 2009. From 2005 to 2007, he was advisor at the Islamic Development Bank of Saudi Arabia. His areas of expertise are the international payments system, macroeconomic policies, finance, and energy and water economics.



Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive look at the essentials of Islamic capital markets

Bringing together theoretical and practical aspects of capital markets, Islamic Capital Markets offers readers a comprehensive insight into the institutions, instruments, and regulatory framework that comprise Islamic capital markets. Also exploring ideas about money, central banking, and economic growth theory and their role in Islamic capital markets, the book provides students and practitioners with essential information about the analytical tools of Islamic capital markets, serves as a guide to investing in Islamic assets, and examines risk management and the structure of Islamic financial products.

Author and Islamic finance expert Noureddine Krichene examines the development of leading Islamic capital markets, including Malaysia, looking at sukuks and stocks in detail and emphasizing valuation, duration, convexity, immunization, yield curves, forward rates, swaps, and risks. Analyzing stock markets, stock valuation, price-earnings ratio, market efficiency hypothesis, and equity premiums, the book addresses uncertainty in capital markets, portfolio diversification theory, risk-return trade-off, pricing of assets, cost of capital, derivatives and their role in hedging and speculation, the principle of arbitrage and replication, Islamic structured products, the financing of large projects, and more.

  • Emphasizes both theoretical and practical aspects of capital markets, covering analytical concepts such as the theory of arbitrage, pricing of assets, capital market pricing model, Arrow-Debreu state prices, risk-neutral pricing, derivatives markets, hedging and risk management, and structured products
  • Provides students and practitioners of finance with must-have information about the analytical tools employed in Islamic capital markets
  • Examines all the most recent developments in major Islamic capital markets, including Malaysia

Discussing the advantages of Islamic capital markets and the prospects for their development, Islamic Capital Markets gives readers a fundamental grounding in the subject, with an emphasis on financial theory and real world practice.



Inhalt

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xxi

Glossary of Arabic Terms xxiii

PART ONE Islamic Capital Markets: Tools of Securities Investment, Asset Pricing, Risk Management, and Portfolio Performance

CHAPTER 1 Capital Theory and Islamic Capital Markets 3

On the Nature of Capital 5

On the Nature of Interest and Profit 10

Capital Theory in Islamic Finance 12

Time Preference and Capital Markets 13

Capital Productivity: The Intertemporal Production Opportunity Set 18

General Equilibrium: Time Preference and Capital Productivity 22

Model of Capital as a Subsistence Fund 26

Capital as an Engine of Growth 29

The Capital Market and the Economy 34

The Intermediation Role of the Capital Market 43

Summary 44

References 45

Questions 45

CHAPTER 2 Portfolio Theory and RiskReturn Tradeoff 47

Market Uncertainty 48

Portfolio Diversification Theory 52

Portfolio Diversification in the Case of Two Risky Assets 56

A Model of a Riskless Asset and a Risky Asset 59

Asset Pricing Based on RiskReturn Tradeoff 62

The Security Market Line 68

Efficiency Frontier, Capital Market Line, Characteristic Line, and Security Market Line 70

The Cost of Capital Based on the Capital Asset Pricing Model 71

Summary 72

References 73

Questions 73

CHAPTER 3 The Analytics of Sukuks 75

Valuation of an Asset 75

Valuation of Sukuks 78

Yield to Maturity 79

Reinvestment of Sukuk Coupons 79

The Par Yield 80

Spot Rates and Forward Rates 81

The Term Structure of Rates of Return 89

Sukuk Duration 94

Sukuk Convexity 100

Immunization of Sukuk Portfolio 104

Summary 110

References 111

Questions 111

CHAPTER 4 Islamic Stocks 117

Sharia Screening 117

Islamic Indexes 118

Speculation and Gambling 119

Stock Yield 122

Common Stock Valuation 125

Forecasting Stock Prices 128

Fundamental and Technical Analysis 135

The Efficiency Hypotheses of Stock Markets 138

Evaluating Companies 142

Mechanics of Trading 144

Summary 150

References 152

Questions 152

CHAPTER 5 The Cost of Capital 155

Objective of the Firm: Market Value Maximization and the Cost of Capital 156

Project Selection: The Hurdle Rate 157

Defining Capital Cost: The Discount Rate 158

The Net Cash Flow 160

The Present Value Formula 161

Relationship between Risk and the Cost of Capital 163

Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital and Overall Cost of Capital 166

Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 168

Risk-Adjusted versus Certainty-Equivalent Discount Rates 172

Applying the CAPM to Calculat…

Titel
Islamic Capital Markets
Untertitel
Theory and Practice
EAN
9781118247143
ISBN
978-1-118-24714-3
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
28.11.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.92 MB
Anzahl Seiten
350
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch