The investors' overreaction to the market sentiments due to the psychological distortions in their judgment could be one of the major reasons for their irrational investment behavior. Added to this, the varied financial products that enter the Indian financial markets also affect the investors' judgment. The investors' inclination to buy these new products by altering their existing consumption patterns is called dispositional innovativeness. The investors' psychological tendency to invest in innovative financial products has been studied by Anu Antony, the author of the first paper, "The Effect of Dispositional Innovativeness on Investment Behavior". The author focuses on investor behavior towards the new innovative financial instruments and the role of dispositional innovativeness in the investment preference of the investors. The author finds that though the awareness towards new financial instruments is high, investors always prefer to invest in traditional avenues.

In order to minimize the risk involved, investors do prefer to have a diversified portfolio. Such investors are offered two major options, mutual funds and index funds. The similarities and differences between these two options have been considered by investors in choosing their investments. The performance of these two funds has been considered and compared with respect to India and the US by Rahul Bhatia and Bhanu Sireesha, the authors of the second paper, "A Note on the Performance of Index Funds and Mutual Funds: India Versus US". The study checks whether the passively managed index funds outperform the actively managed mutual funds or not in both India and the US. On comparing the performances of both the funds in both the countries, the authors find that the Indian markets show potential for the mutual funds in offering better returns than the index funds. The intellectual capital assists in creating wealth and in the production of other high valued assets. In a business, it includes the wealth of the ideas and the ability for innovation which highly determines the future of the firm. The growing importance of intellectual capital led the authors take up a review of all the studies on intellectual capital existing in the literature for the past 10 years, in order to obtain a proper understanding of the concept. Soumya Singhal, Seema Gupta and Vijay Kumar Gupta, the authors of the third paper, "Mirroring a Decade-Long Experience on Intellectual Capital", have studied and presented a structured literature review of 226 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in specialized and generalized journals.

Islamic banks operate under the Sharia principles of risk sharing and interest prohibition as against the conventional banks that buy capital to pool funds and sell capital to generate interest income or profit. Applying the banks' internal factors related to their financial statements, Arindam Banerjee and Manoj Kapur, the authors of the last paper, "A Comparative Financial Ratio Analysis of Conventional and Islamic Banks in GCC", compare and contrast the fundamental differences between Islamic banks and conventional banks with special reference to the banks operating in the GCC region. The paper explains the structure, operation and management of the banks, coupled with the functioning of the Islamic banks. It also determines the profitable and efficient banks among the sample chosen.