A study of correlation and volatility linkages between sukuk and international stocks indexes / Saima Bungsu

Portfolio allocation and risk management would consider about the volatility and also the
co-movement financial markets. During the recession all the investors and Institutional would be
threat to stay in this condition. The more correlation between the securities and the stocks it will
give the bad impact to the portfolio risk. This study will investigate the correlation and the
volatility linkages between the Dow Jones Sukuk Index with FTSE Malaysia Index, FTSE
Indonesia Index, and FTSE Singapore Index.In this study the test that been used to test the
volatility linkages of variables Is GARCH models. The duration of availability data that had been
took to test in the test model start from 2007 until 2015 the data also in daily basis that it could
cover the monthly quarterly and yearly, during this period the result data can be forecasting
during the recession condition. Study found that the volatility of the FTSE Indonesia are
significantly low correlated with the Dow jones Sukuk Index, which mean the FTSE Indonesia
stock index are low volatility risk rather than FTSE Malaysia Index and FTSE Singapore Index.