Do Sukuk provide diversification benefits to conventional bond investors? Evidence from Turkey

We investigate the contribution of Sukuk in diversification of bond portfolios. We do so by comparing Turkish bond funds that invest exclusively in conventional bonds (pure conventional bond funds), in Sukuk (pure Islamic bond funds), and in both (mixed bond funds) among each other for the period of 2014–2019. We employ tests of differences in means and variances of various risk-return measures as well as mean-variance spanning and intersection...