If want to buy directly, can approach investment banker.
They do offer such a service.

There are more and more retailer bonds in the market nowadays, even for overseas banks/corporate bond.

Having said that, I do not think bond is a good target at the moment.
When yield is rising across, bond price may have some difficult time eventually, affect existing bond fund performance.

Bond price rise when you have low interest rate, low FD rate, low gov bond yield.

Bond price drop when people expected other asset class may provide better return.
If gov bond now is 3.9%, you think a corporate bond that offer 4%, people want to buy?
surely risk and reward is not correct.
Investors now may demand the corporate bond at 5% to justify the risk they are taking.
So the corporate bond price will drop and become a % yield.

Bond like QE, cheap interest rate, liquidity, which make the bond price rising.

Bond doesn't like tightening, hike in interest rate.

If QE tapering does send bond/reit and stock market into a big correction, then the answer is yes.

Waiting at bottom to collect cheap price.

But nobody has the crystal to know it.
The tapering issue may overcooked, as I do not see Fed will raise interest rate for the near term of coming 2-3 years down the road.
Unless the new Fed chairman has other idea. 

Same with local front interest rate, I do not see BNM raise rate when export is slowing, GDP number is at modest growth.
Unless RM facing severe headwind issue, which I do not forsee it for near term as well.

Petronas rating also downgraded to negative by Fitch. 

Huiyo! Fongshui chart very geng this year! 

http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/business-ne...rom-stable.html

Tomorrow headline :

FITCH Credibility downgraded.

actually not so bad if hold them, if yield continue raising in coming years, worst case is after few years later, capital gain flat, but still already received dividend every year 4-6% pa.
key point is, if, yield continue increasing for next 5-10 years. 

Generally speaking, a rise in interest rates is expected to cause a general fall in prices for all stocks, not just REITs. It's just that REITs are considered more vulnerable. Maybe because they are locked in to fixed long term rental agreements and so they're future income is more predictable (the exact same reason why they are considered more stable)?

Am I seeing shadows of the 1997 Asian financial crisis? Is this the beginning?
- high inflation >> high interest rate. Starting with Indonesia.
- currency devaluation.
- fund outflows.

Actually, it is not high interest that lead to both crisis. Both crisis did not start with high interest rate.
A 6-7% interest rate back then was a norm for Malaysia prior before crisis.
A 3-4% interest rate was average level for US prior 2008.

It is excessive borrowing, complacency lending practice that lead to the crisis.

Malaysia household debt level although is high, but it is not that severe compared to subprime loan.

At least locally, banks do screen borrowers income before lending, and most mortgage given has property backing, and most do not give full valuation on the property.

JCY 

Stocks fly need reason one meh 

after raya, should be better...............

Yup, no traffic jam today..............good

seem the KLSE volume only be recover few days later

hehehe dunno what is next.. but stock is definitely in the queue and should be the most shocking & painful ....

So u ready to take a few property already when the crash come?

I just jumped in, u jumped out 

me, Wrong timing

one thing i learn in last 3 years: can't predict market.
when people predict gold will shoot up to the sky when Fed announced QEs, it didn't. In fact, it fell sharply.
when people predict severe inflation worldwide when Fed said non-stop QE, it only happened in few countries, even so it's under manageable condition, nothing serious. Commodities price still stay low, no flaming up like past QEs.
when people predict this round of highly uncertain GE result will kill the market sharply, it didn't, it just mildly corrected.
People said US is going to die from massive QE, and no, it doesn't. In fact, it recovers nicely.
Europe zone will break? No, it didn't happen. It is now even growing mildly.
China will die from bad debt? No, it doesn't. It's consolidating and progressing well in control.

conclusion, i give up predict market on stock trading. I'd rather stay with fundamentals and trade accordingly. I'd missed the big bull too many times, I learn my lesson.