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Amanah Saham 1Malaysia for sale from Aug 5

July 31, 2009

Hi! If you’re new here and enjoy reading the posts, you can subscribe to my feed. Thanks for visiting!The Prime Minister has finally launched the much talked about Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (also popularly known as AS 1Malaysia). The sale of the Amanah Saham 1Malaysia units will commence on August 5 and the initial offer period [...]

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How does the new Public Bank’s PB USA Recovery Fund work?

May 12, 2009

I saw an ad in today’s paper about the newest fund in the market by Public Bank – the PB USA Recovery Fund. From what I understand reading the brochure, this is a structured fund and it’s 100% capital protected in Ringgit. This fund aims to capture the economic recovery of the US equity market in the [...]

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Which unit trust funds to buy

February 3, 2009

During this period of economic downturn, many investors have suffered losses in all types of investments. No matter how diversified their portfolios are, the losses were inevitable in one form or another. The only hope is that there was a good mix of asset classes in there that could have helped to sustain huge losses.
Even [...]

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Would you contribute less to EPF?

November 6, 2008

With the latest proposal by the Government that employees can now opt to contribute 8% of their salary towards their EPF account versus the current compulsory rate of 11%, would you care to contribute the lesser amount? If you are keen to contribute less and therefore have more income in hand, I hope it is [...]

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Check out the composition of your unit trust funds

September 17, 2008

With the downfall of Lehman Brothers, the buyover of Merrill and the downgrading of AIG all happening in the US, we are not spared from the losses domestically. With the liberalisation of the unit trust funds some 3 years back, many local fund managers have ventured into offshore funds. Local investors happily hopped onto the [...]

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