JCI or JII?

The common perception of Syaria equity investment is: safety and low risk. But is it true?

The fact is from 2001 – 2009, Syaria equity investment (which we use Jakarta Islamic Index/JII as proxy) 70% gave outperform return compared to the conventional one (Jakarta Composite Index/JCI). Only in 2004 and 2008 the JCI outperform JII. From the return point of view, JII seems attractive than JCI.

Coal Demand & Supply

On an article in Bisnis Indonesia today, the coal price is facing pressure due to demand reduction from China and India. But does this demand reduction is a material one? Since we can’t find the exact data on how many tones does the demand reduced, we try to look at another data.

Indonesia Economic Cycle

A few days ago I’ve just found an interesting stuff from Google. It was Google Public Data! I was very delighted that finally someone made people easy to access the economic data. I found myself hard to collect those historical data before, especially when I need to make some analysis work. Eventhough the data provided is very limited, I hope someday Google will add with a more comprehensive one.