From the category archives:

Unit Trust

Index funds

February 23, 2008

Since the unit trust market was liberalised with more relaxed rulings on offshore investments, most new fund launches have been nothing but regional and global funds. At this point, many of our local fund managers are still not up to the standard of managing these foreign funds so the easiest and fastest way to offer [...]

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New fund launch

February 21, 2008

I was informed by my unit trust agent that a new fund is to be launched next week buying into local securities that are categorised to be small to mid-cap in size. I am interested in small-cap funds because of the growth opportunities. I’ve missed out on many small-cap funds in the past and don’t [...]

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Investing my future funds

January 21, 2008

My unit trust agent just informed me this morning that I am now able to invest a larger sum of my EPF funds into unit trusts! I’ve been waiting for this change of ruling for months now and am glad it’s finally here.
Now I just have to pick out some good funds and start the [...]

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Precious metals

January 20, 2008

How precious are precious metals? I’ve been seeing a lot of new funds buying into precious metals lately. Maybe commodities is the way to go now versus the more volatile stock market?
I don’t know how the commodity markets work but all I know is that a small time investor like me would never be able [...]

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Funds

December 14, 2007

I just got my bonus for the year. As soon as I saw them in my account, I wrote a check for half of them to be invested in some funds buying into China and South East Asia. I hope I made a good investment decision there.

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