QUOTE(lowya @ Jan 1 2021, 03:07 PM)
what are your evaluation criteria to decide whether crappy, interesting or not bad? mind sharing?
2 main things are liquidity n expense ratio.
For ETF, usually trading volume is low, so we have to depend on ETF market makers to put in buy sell quotes for liquidity. (btw a structured warrant is similar). Unlike structured warrant where IB is the Issuer, the ETF issuer itself is a fund manager, they are not brokers and not allowed to put in the buy sell quotes. So they will appoint 1-2 brokers/IBs to provide liquidity.
You can check next week: during trading hours, please compare 820EA with one of the Affin ETF, say the Gold ETF (0828EA). Look at the buy and sell quotes, how much volume are on buy sell side and how narrow is the spread. The Goldetf is much superior, you can execute a few hundred K order in one shot. Don't think you can do that in 820EA.
The second is expense ratio. The 0820EA expense ratio is high for such a simple ETF. Some ETF, the more exotic ones, are understable to have high expense ratios. For eg. a goldetf is higher because it has to include the costs of storing and insuring gold in a vault. But 0820EA is a simple ETF.
(tbh haven't looked at 0820EA for a while, but I believe things haven't changed. If it has improved for the better, I will amend my post.)
The reason for this weaknesses is simple. The fund manager simply doesn't care enough about this product. For eg. If they care enough, they will give the right incentives for the market maker to do a good job and provide high liquidity.
In fact, you can easily tell which fund managers care, just by looking at the effort they put on their ETF website.
Aminvest ETF website
https://www.ambankgroup.com/sites/fbmklciet...es/default.aspxAffin etf website
https://tradeplus.com.my/0820EA is not good, but another Aminvest ETF is not too bad. That's 0800EA, the only bond ETF in Bursa. I made pretty decent returns from the bond ETF in 2018-19 when interest rates started falling.
Disclosure: I currently holds Bursa Affinhwang etfs in my portfolio. I have already exited from the Abfmy.
This post has been edited by Cubalagi: Jan 1 2021, 04:46 PM