Yes, give to Pinky. Looi is an RSS contributer. (In some LYN areas, apparently they battle for the privilege)

Pinky, please add some clarification between "dividends" and "distributions".

In particular, point out that funds give "distributions", not "dividends". Which makes it easier for investors to tell they are not the same thing.

This is NOT about what you think you already know.

This is about what Fund Houses call it - they call it distributions.

Do you have an example where Fund Houses call it "dividends"?. If so, please provide a link.

Then why are some noobs here keep harping about dividends if they are not applicable to mutual funds?

Tell lar where to get this ball....

so happen i did "SELL" CMF on tuesday. i checked yesterday afternoon... money was already in.

this is A GOOD one....
  i will be glueing to the pc for the next hour to see the suggestion.... FSM 0.8%SC closing at 3pm today....Pls hurry. tell me, tell me....  

you top up any funds for this 0.8?

I am happy you asked and I am happy to answer:

CIMB Asia-Pac Dynamic Income Fund aka Ponzi ver 2.0 amongst long time forummers here has the best risk-adjusted return. Hence keep it.

KGF and Small-Cap are essentially invested into the same market and they both have a correlation coefficient of 0.8 which is the numerical/mathematical way of saying you are invested in the same market. 1 is the max value. 

KGF's Corr-coeff vs Ponzi is 0.60 whereas Small cap Corr-coeff with Ponzi 2.0 is 0.54.

To be a logical investor, you need to choose the component of your portfolio to have low Corr-coeff with each other, hence choose small-cap with Ponzi 2.0.

Now you ask me, how I get to have access to all these data?

I told you, I have a crystal ball.

Xuzen

Nope....what about you?

@Jutamind: I tak nak reveal... ini barang kasi saya cari makan wan. I am a professional investor mah.. I have access to info that normal retail investors do not....    

@Celes: I want to comment a little about Link 2. I realised that those are CFA materials. Much have been said that CFA is a tough paper. After seeing those examples, I can say that in real world your calculation is going to be much more messy and not so sterile. Be happy that in CFA questions, it is so vanilla and nice. It is not so in real life.

Scientific and academics will have different outlook compared to a pure speculator. Rational investors take calculated risk, speculators take all sort of risk.

To me an aggressive rational investor is someone who still take risk by adjusting the equity to fixed income ratio. There are of course people who struck it rich by being lucky once or twice. But luck is such a unmanageable parameter, the academics are better off just ignoring it.

Xuzen

Dont' worry about noobs.

Dividends are not applicable to Funds. Funds give distributions, not dividends.

PS: Please edit the initial post accordingly, thanks.

What about RHB osk Asian income fund .