Hmmm. REIT dividend is higher?

given choice, i would prefer to park $$ at ASW/ASM but the question is how many can access to this two funds in respect of the low quota and age restriction. ?? it left no choice to choose REITs as an alternative.

REIT dividend is something like fixed income (it is mainly depends on rent except BSDREIT) as compared with ASW / ASM.

REIT / FD / Bond are almost like fixed income (although REIT / FD / Bond are different).

ASW / ASM provide dividend which was quite constant but it still depends much on the investment profit that year. So people usually compare REIT with FD.

Furthermore not everyone can buy ASW/ASM. (especially non-bumi)

Impossible almost zero risk for ASM & ASW. I know that they constantly pay good dividend but they are still investing in stocks market.

We can only say that ASM & ASW have skillful trader / portfolio manager.

yes...go for hospital, and shopping mall!!!!!

shhh...later the price shoot up very high...

hahaha already high from my purchasing power ..... 

CMMT jumps from 1.08(end of march 2011) to 1.17(now)
didn't mange to get in earlier

2.9%?
Half year, 2.9% may be.

It is a 5-6% yield.

If earlier didnt join in the boat, wait for another one...Keep your precious cash to join a new boat. 5 to 6% is yet to consider high return. Aim for 7 to 8% annually and diversify to different industries REITs.

Huat together!!!

Even when i bought at end 2008 and early 2009, my net DY% never hit 12%pa to 13%pa leh. TOTAL returns got lar - inclusive of capital gains, but pure net DY%, elek
Perhaps another round of WORSE crisis, then can hit lor 

Looking for 12-13% ?  Where were you when Atrium was below RM0.65 early 2009 ? I bought at RM0.625/0.63 giving current yield of about 13.8%.
But would you dare to buy then ? None of my friends dared to touch the stock market at that time. The prevailing mood at that time was that the sky is falling down & the KLCI would drop to zero ?!

The thing about trading/investing is to be practical and able to anticipate well in advance possible catalyst scenarios & have the courage to act accordingly. Otherwise, success would just remain an elusive daydream.

If you can find any counters yielding a consistant divvy of 12-13% now, I am sure the whole of Lowyat.net ppl would like to know. Me included 

Heheh - my apologies HJebat. I track my investments in "net profit/loss" form, thus i disregard the gross DY%, not in my pocket = waffor, gimme false hope only that stats 

To get that kind of yields, you need to invest near to historical low.

For some of those REITs, it's when they first dropped post-IPO... now lambat liao

If you able find a 12-13% yield in current bullish market, then better be careful.
It could be too good to be true... 

Market is somehow got its own efficient, they don't wait for you to buy 12-13% yield good investment.

My advice is always the same.
Don't know/understand, do not invest.

How do you ensure the reit won't go burst during bad time or when the yield is teen number time?
You/we don't know.
There were well known reit in overseas went burst during the global crisis time, and never recover until now.

Opportunity is always there, you don't need to buy at the bottom to make money.
You may miss the opportunity to make 50%, 80%, 100% return, but if well equiped yourself, and invest wisely, getting a 10%, 15%, 20% return also very good.

While if invest wrongly, money burned resulted in little capital left, which eventually you lose many many more opportunity in the future as stock market is
no capital, no talk.

HJebat, my calc of per transaction's net profit / loss, even if still held (thus pre-calculated), assumes:

Current Closing Price (or selling price if i just sold)
+ Dividends Received

Less Costs:
  Purchase cost
  Selling Cost (pre-calculated)

and divided into 364.25 days pa of time between purchase and selling to get XX%pa profit/loss

The ears? "" - i like ears, nice to hold, especially beautiful women's 
Seriously though, i put "" as it's my personal definition of net profit / loss, even if still held. Some people tracks net profit / loss held without including the cost IF sold now. I'm more pessimistic that way 

To be clearer, i'll use the example below. Your data needs to be more specific in terms of Dividend amount, date bought (2008 isn't a date, it's a year), date sold 

Eg.
Bought: 1/1/2008
Bought at $1
Units: 3,000

Dividends: $0.10 single tier

Sold: 30/06/2009
Sold at  $1.20
Units: 3,000

a. Cost of Purchase = ($1 * 3,000) +brokerage +stamp duty
I'll assume here that Cost of Purchase = $3,043

b. BEP = Cost of purchase - Net Dividend received, say $3,043 - $300 = $2,743

c. Net Profit = Sales - (brokerage + stamp duty) - BEP,
say $3,600 -$21 -$2,743 = $836
Thus the pa% returns calculation based on the above (in Excel formula) would be:
((BEP +Net Profit) / BEP)  ^(1 / (Date Sold -Date Purchased) /364.25)  -1

where: (BEP +Net Profit) / BEP = simple Profit % (er.. minus 1 please from here)
where: (Date Sold -Date Purchased) = days held. Dividing this by 364.25 days will get U years
where: ^(1 / blah blah). The basic formula is derived from S = P * (1+%)^n

Anyone  yet? heheh - it looks simple in Excel. Any maths genius can check the above? I just translated it from my Excel spreadsheet from interpretation of the cells' data - did my spreadsheet (finalized) several years ago 

ECM Money has initiated coverage on CMMT. Target Price RM1.50.

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(source: ECM Money dd 09Jun2011)