Right now, there are so many things one can pick up from TopG, purely from an academic point of view....

1. Sales buyback... the first crazy round, many traders did benefit .... but on the bigger picture ...  it's quite clear that whatever benefit a share buyback has, it's gone if the company executes the buyback poorly.

2. Tracking EPF? Bloody waste of time.

3. Share getting into an index listing? There's absolutely zero conclusive evidence that the share will go boom boom because of it.

4. Chasing a stock for dividend... never a good idea.

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feel free to add ...

Bought back into Serba today, as I got an alert that it hit my target buying price.

Okay, let me show you evidence on my statement 'Following big funds has its plus but it also has its drawbacks. Big funds could always make big mistakes too. Again, best reference locally was Transmile. Some big funds got burnt badly too.'

Most material is easily researched from the net. There's even a paper written.

Link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&es...YP74fp81-4EW5Sr

Not sure if that works or not but search for keyword 'Transmile scandal'

look for this one....



The scandal broke out in May 2007. In the report there's a chart posted...



Yup it was as high as rm14.00

The fund list... can still be found here...

https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/co...ratefg/7000.jsp

let's look at Capital Group International... the 4th name from that i3 link...

click on the Magnifier... and then click on Share Transactions tab ...

Page 9 .... will give us...



now that screenshot shows that CGI was buying constantly ... look at the prices it was buying... 

Page 7 .... this is where the action begins.... 



So scandal broke out in May 2007... CGI started buying... more!!!!

and guess what.... it bought all the way.... see the buying... it continues to page 2... 



See the disposal on Nov 2007.... the selling price.... 

and there you have it.....
A big name fund... caught up in a scandal.... and the big name fund... bought and bought....

so in this case, clearly it was not smart to follow the big fund. Yup, big funds are also human. They can make mistake. Some of the fund, they can afford the 'mistakes'? We? Can we afford it? Can we afford to die die fight?