yah pleasae share, i cant find a fund <than 5% service charge except bond fund..,,,,

Whats wrong with PGSF, not performing!!!!

I dun mind if it is not performing now, as I am doing the dollar-cost-averaging method. So it is actually GOOD that the price dip a little, as long as in the long run the trend is upward.

here's your proof. this is taken from the star

"Funds for Malaysian market outperform those overseas

IN the last year or so, small investors fled in droves into global or regional Asian funds launched by unit trust companies here. 

The investors felt, as the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

The companies read the mood of retail investors well, and almost all of the unit trusts launched during this period carried the mandate to invest overseas. 

More than that, there was heavy selling by investors of their units in Malaysian equity funds. As a result, some of these funds shrank as much as 30% last year in terms of units issued. 

The irony of these decisions is that, as it turned out, the funds for the Malaysian stock market far outperformed those that went overseas. The top two Malaysia funds increased their unit value by over 50% last year compared with above 20% for global funds managed here. 

In addition, each of the top 10 Malaysian funds rose by more than 30% in unit value last year - an outstanding achievement - compared with a performance range of 23.5% to 5.8% among the top 10 global funds, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P) data published in BizWeek.

One reason for this divergence in performance could be the strength of the Malaysian market as a laggard in the region, just as local retail investors "locked in" their initial gains. 

Furthermore, the local fund managers may be relatively inexperienced in investing regionally or globally. 

That could, of course, change this year or in other years, but so far this year, Malaysia's performance continued. 

In the four weeks this month, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index outperformed its peer indices in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Taiwan and South Korea. 

In a way, naturally Bursa Malaysia Bhd, the stock, rose about 30% this month and was the world's best performing stock exchange, according to a Bloomberg article. 

The grass may be quite green on the home ground, too. Retail investors should consider investing in the local market and pick unit trust companies that have shown some consistency in performance in recent years"

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...34&sec=business

Not trying to sell anything here, but for those of you who are already in Public Mutual. I guess, you guys may want to consider during this time of bull run, there is no point parking your investment in balanced fund or global fund. Problem with global or regional fund is, rise in one market is negated by a fall in another market.

For me its either being just going into 1 market or withdraw into a Bond fund. So, you guys may want to check out for the past 12 months the most performing fund. I did a little survey and it tells me 2 funds that are doing well and I guess we should invest our limited resources into the most efficient fund and not settle for one that is giving 2% or 3% less than the best.. right?

you mean lock you returns in Bond fund for the moment? thats what many agents are advising at the moment

you mean lock you returns in Bond fund for the moment? thats what many agents are advising at the moment

Personally think that now it is not quite suit to switch to equity fund, a bit too late. Stock market already had a nice run up, although some said there is still some room for upside but surely not much to go at least for the short term period.
Also, bond has not doing quite good for the past 2-3 years due to series of interest rate hike so not much gain that can be locked upon.

Personally think that currently should reduce equity exposure and wait for new opportunities.
Anyway , it is just personal opinion.

Well,.. for me... I am like reading too many good news recently. Current situations are,

-US economy might slowing down, US currency not performing that makes Asia market becoming more attractive(China got some credits here).
-CNY is coming soon
-The 9th (dun know what plan?) That pushing behind?
-By the year 2008, pilihanraya?

So,... a bit hard to asked people not to dream of something too pretty...
Current doubt is, the China Share market.

*just personal opinion*

i am just blur.mean is still ok to buy the pb far east fund?

any idea abt OSK UOB GLOBAL EQUITY FUND..
closing on tuesday..
50cent per unit..........

Hi mhui,
Public got
EQUITY FUND

*Public Far-East Select Fund
*Public Far-East Dividend Fund (new)

BALANCED FUND(Some people named it as Mixed Asset Fund?)

*Public Far-East Balanced Fund (new)

The one you named as PB Far East fund is not available yet... As it would be under PB SERIES OF FUNDS category already.

Actually, no one know how long the market would be good? Like today, Friday,... the market is Then, by Monday,... no one know also. If anyone telling you that next day market would be good with 100% confidence. He just bull you...

Also, buying fund,... you need some time to recover. As they are some charges incurs. Anyway,... the Public Far-East Dividend Fund(since November 2006) is performing quite good with profit yield of 3.14% now(as at 8th February 2007). Therefore, can you see that... from November 2006 till February 2007. Then only I can tell its performance(i personally very happy with this 3.14% ).

While Public Far-East Balanced Fund(since 23 January 2007)... has not get ready into the market yet...

Does that give you any idea how does Fund works in any sense?

PFED is good and overtook PGSF. PGSF in red on THursday, really cant understand.
Might sell it after breakeven.

Public Mutual's Far-East Dividend Fund Inceases Fund Size for the 3rd Time  

KUALA LUMPUR 5 February 2007 - Public Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Public Mutual announced that it has obtained the approval from the Securities Commission (SC) to increase the fund size of Public Far-East Dividend Fund (PFEDF) from 3.5 billion units to 5 billion units.

Chief Executive Officer Lam Kam Yin said, "This is the third time the company has increased the fund size of PFEDF after it was launched on 28 November 2006. To date, more than RM858 million (or more than 3.4 billion units) worth of units of PFEDF were sold. The increase in fund size of PFEDF by another 1.5 billion units will allow the company to meet strong market demand".

PFEDF is an equity income fund that seeks to provide income by investing in a portfolio of stocks in domestic and regional markets which offer or have the potential to offer attractive dividend yields. The fund focuses on investing in companies that have demonstrated consistency in rewarding their shareholders via strong dividend payouts. "Up to 70% of the fund's Net Asset Value (NAV) can be invested in selected regional markets which include South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and other approved markets," he added. The equity exposure of PFEDF will generally range from 75% to 90% of its NAV. The fund is suitable for moderate investors with preference for receiving income while capital growth is secondary.

Public Mutual is the largest private unit trust company in Malaysia, and it manages 38 funds for more than 900,000 accountholders. As at 29 December 2006, the total NAV of the funds managed by the company was RM16.2 billion.

URL: http://www.publicmutual.com.my/article.aspx?id=5913