This study examines the performances of two Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) structure in
Malaysian capital market by comparing the Dividend Yield (DY), Distribution per Unit (DU), Net
asset Value (NAV), and Earning per Unit (EU) of shariah (iREITs) and conventional (cREITs) REITs
from Malaysia perspective. The secondary data are retrieved from Bloomberg's Database for 13
listed REITs in the Bursa Malaysia main board for a five-year period from 2009 to 2013 with yearly
observation. Applying One Way-Anova analysis, an Independent Sample Kruskal-Wallis Test is used
to determine any differences in the performance of the two REITs structure. The results provide evidence
indicating that the two structures had distinctive and significantly different performances. It
also indicates the better performance of iREITs compared to cREITs. The results of this study are
useful to provide additional evidence towards the viable of Islamic funds as a significant initiative to
broaden and deepen the product base of Islamic capital market in Malaysia.
