QUOTE(MUM @ Feb 25 2025, 12:21 PM)
There are still people thinking like that, ...
Unless, unavoidable have to contributes.
They would never put extra inside as they had experienced and believes the money can generate better else where.
"Scam" just pay them 5-6% pa. Their own investment portfolio managed to gives them more %, EXCLuding the depreciating MYR too
A proper investment protfolio would have breakdown low risk investiment, mid risks and high risks according to your age, appetite and financial goals.
When everything else fails, you still have EPF as your last man standing and it's also bankruptcy proof.
QUOTE(jasontoh @ Feb 25 2025, 06:54 PM)
No such thing as guarantee in investment, thus my point is we should not treat EPF as investment. However my point being many, me included have trust deficit on how the government managing our money, thus many will prefer to withdraw when reach retirement, but that doesn't mean that they are losing out on EPF dividend because their investment might turn out to be golden.
Sounds great on theory, but the reality is, most people who withdraw all are usually spent it all too soon, burns it on bad investment or got scammed. Almost every week sure got one scam story. Just a few days ago a 70+ years old lost RM4 million+ to scammers.
Also, in the top elite club in EPF, there are people with over RM10 millions in EPF....pretty sure those people will probably have a lot more outside of EPF.....likely they are financially way smarter than me. Unker small fry just follow. Maybe got a few here from the Elite club here also....don't be suprised.
QUOTE(fuzzy @ Feb 25 2025, 07:25 PM)
I think my point is, you get guaranteed 12% every month because government forces your employer to contribute into EPF (unless you self employed la).
DBS or whatever investment won't get you that amount.
It's tempting to think if we don't need to contribute to EPF, the 11% can park into DBS, but you forget they have at least 2-3 periods when the stock fell by 30-50%. Do you feel most can stomach that and continue to vest into it?
I think my Maybank shares also hovered around rm7 for ages before coming back to the price we see today.
Yes, unker old already, don't want too excited, later HBP attack and masuk hospital like Sabri...cukur at least no MACC after me since i only eat chicken and duck eggs and not turtle egg. If put small portion play play, ok lah. I play a little bit of BTC previously, cannot tahan the rollercoasters. I think i stick to Sports Toto.
This post has been edited by CommodoreAmiga: Feb 26 2025, 08:53 AM