http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-your-...ters-2013-03-19

Still in the long term a small difference , over 10 years

Some for diversification, some because hujan emas di negeri orang

Not as expensive as the 2% mutual funds

Diverse, low fees

Actually $25 per trade if you buy in big chunks here and there it isn't really that much in the long term

Would you say ETFs are for trader investors, not long term?

For long term why not just get no-load funds from Vanguard SG like VFINX VTSMX?

PS: Again, are there no ETFs composed of Malaysian stocks, only front load UTs ?

This post has been edited by oneeleven: Nov 3 2014, 10:51 PM

USD25/trade min?

Let take malaysia mutual fund commission for example 2%

u need to trade at least USD1250/trade.....

ETFs can be used for long term, short term, intra day trading , short selling, options

Can you buy them directly in SG from Vanguard? Doesn't give any information on their SG website at all.

There's a Malaysia ETF, IWM by iShares : http://www.ishares.com/us/products/239669/...ci-malaysia-etf

I did say big chunks .. if you bought $5k, that $25 is only 0.5%

Isn't iShares EWM still a US$ product? I'm hoping for a Rm$ one sold on local bourse. ETF concept too advanced for here?

What is Vanguard doing in SG if not selling anything?!?!

This post has been edited by oneeleven: Nov 3 2014, 11:19 PM

1 shoot 5k?
why not 50k? so commission only 0.05%?

Better diversify it..

1k in 1 time.

This one really hujan emas lol, why would you not buy the ETF directly from bursa, it's only 0.005% (Malacca Securities I think )

Ah, I've never looked at any ETFs listed on Bursa

I don't think Vanguard funds are available directly in SG - FSM there for example sells "INFINITY US 500 STOCK INDEX" as a feeder fund

Sure, I was just saying $25 isn't too bad IF you only buy large chunks here and there. If you're topping up +/- $1k each time then yeah, paying $25 each time is a bit too much.

This one?

FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI ETF 0820EA
http://www.ambankgroup.com/sites/fbmklciet...es/default.aspx

Anyway here's a list of ETFs listed on Bursa :

http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/securi...aded-funds-etfs

Yes that one.. why would you pay anyone $25 to buy what you can buy for like 0.005% here

One thing i like about etfs is that it allow you to bet on certain macro trend without too high of an exposure to certain stock and also of its low fees of course.

One thing to be careful about etfs is that always choose those that has high activity / volume else they might just close the fund halfway through

any gold/silver or commodities etf in malatsia

So buying UTs and ETFs with similar holdings from discount brokers not much difference except for NAV pricing and flexible trading hours?

Yep, although with most US ETFs they're quite active / liquid unless you're looking at really specific stuff

Certainly sector / country ETFs there's no worries about liquidity - even the 2/3x Bull/Bear leveraged ones have quite decent volume.

Bursa only has limited ETFs listed, no commodity ones.

http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/securi...aded-funds-etfs

You can buy some UTs through FSM - AmPrecious Metals / RHB-OSK Gold And General Fund

Well if you have a UT with the same fees as an ETF , tracking the same index your return would be pretty much the same.

mind telling how to buy via FSM bro ? ....on line or from the bank ?
AmPrecious Metals --from ambank
RHB-OSK Gold And General Fund --from rhb ?
tx...noob here

market down down..

There's a thread dedicated to FSM : https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3334901