AUD & SGD Yield also being hammered, although not as bad as MY. AUD is performing worst than SGD.

HKD & JPY is steady...JPY yield is actually going down!

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 27 2013, 09:55 AM

Psst.. the carnage in the market started already..

steady steady....

That fund buy a lot of nonsense... IMHO if you want food security better to concentrate on plantations, orchard & farmland.

Rather than buying farm equipment, GMO producers, pesticide & fertilizer manufacturers etc etc

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 28 2013, 12:29 PM

How accurate can you predict the market...? Market often turn in one go and leave you in the dust before you can fire your bazooka.

Buy when the market gives you good valuation, keep your portfolio balanced and have a steady heart as this is for long term investment.

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 28 2013, 12:50 PM

P/E Ratio, P/E10, P/BV is common valuation methods against average as well.. government securities yield...vs stock yield. Macro economic news etc should be your basis. No need to rely on all the hokey pokey forecasting...

For example I did tell you to less your holdings in ASEAN region before all these downturn hits right due to government yield rising.

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 28 2013, 01:15 PM

Hindsight is always rosy... not so easy when you are in the thick of it. Investing is 90% emotion.

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 28 2013, 01:16 PM

Just a note.. Indonesia has revised their interest rate from 6.5% to 7.0%. Brazil also revised 8.5% to 9%. Further raise in other emerging market (including MY) will be likely.

As always bond risk in emerging market is heighten by interest rate rise. So be careful in your allocation.

Not necessary... sovereign bond and emerging market bond present to most risk, so do foreign/emerging REITs if the interest rate continue to rise. Higher quality shorter term corporate bonds & local/SG reits will be more resilient.

Amdynamic is medium-long corporate bond fund. It is not as risky as most sovereign & EM bond funds. However it is slightly more risky than other shorter term bond fund.

I am keeping my AmDynamic allocation unchanged.

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 30 2013, 01:46 PM

About 20% of my total UT portfolio (SGD+MYR) got la..

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 30 2013, 01:53 PM

Yalor Sifu.. how arrr?

Can still accumulate Carlsberg at below RM 13 if you wan....

Also IGB reit now selling at 1.19 also...

But you just say wanna reduce bond %....

Appollo also selling at 4.10 only...

This post has been edited by gark: Aug 30 2013, 02:14 PM

I think still relatively ok, got some losses but the fund is well run. Good mix of A-AAA corporate securities, medium term.

It will not be fantastic from now on due to yield compression gone .. but expect 5-6% p.a.

This post has been edited by gark: Sep 2 2013, 12:12 PM

Malaysia need to raise interest rate already.. at least 25 bps. The real interest rate and bond rates are disconnecting further and further away...

10y indon soveriegn bond is now yiekding 8.9% p.a. went up 200 bps from recent low.

I think not the time yet... outflow is still strong.

Asian currency crisis, it went up to 18% leh.. so still long way to go.

looking at the XIRR.. and the ROI.. i believe those are legacy funds.. ie funds bought long long time ago.

I also got some PM legacy fund.. how many unit i have left also don't know already.