fixed price funds is just like your beloved EPF
I love to use examples and analogies...
U pass me RM100,000 to invest in a business
We have an agreement...
- Should u decide to cash out, u will only get back your capital of RM100,000
- But I also guarantee u that u won't lose your capital, if u cash out I will pay u back 100% of your capital
- It is up to my discretion to declare/pay out how much dividend to u, if at all
Scenario AI managed to grow the business, a year later it is worth RM150,000, i.e. 50% return
But I think that I want to retain some profits for future growth, so I pay out 20% dividend i.e. RM20,000 to u, balance RM30,000 is retained.
Business value now: RM130,000
Scenario BI made some profits for u, total profits from trading of goods were RM20,000
But I also trashed the office when I *ahem* with my secretary last night. We bought the office unit at RM50,000. If u were to sell it off now, can only fetch RM25,000. Now that's some heavy damages done
Realised profits: RM20,000
Unrealised loss: (-RM25,000)
Business value: (-RM5,000)
But I still can pay u RM20,000 as dividend

End up the business left value of RM75,000 only
That's fixed price fund for u, in a simplistic view.

What if market perform badly, and they made looses. They lower the interest rate. But you don't loose your money which is in asx.
If you were buying stocks in klse, you have the risk of loosing much more money if the market isn't good.