RHB Asian Income Fund. RHB smart treasure would duplicate too much with his EI small cap and there won't be Asia Pac ex japan exposure

Great! You have been paying attention!

Xuzen

Not sure if this means much to you
FSM recommended portfolio switched from AmAsia Pac income to ponzi 2.0 last month http://www.fundsupermart.com.my/main/artic...FSM/A201605.pdf

AmAsia Pac income performance is even worse than ponzi 2.0

Me 2

Emerging-Market Stocks Are Now Cheaper Than Junk Bonds: Chart
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...unk-bonds-chart

time to buy up Emerging-Market Stocks

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This post has been edited by howszat: May 10 2016, 12:37 AM

How do you guys see the outlook of REIT funds, e.g. AmAsia Pacific REIT?

Looks ok to me. In times of volatility such as now, a greater exposure to fixed income instruments such as bond, REITs and dividend yielding stocks will outperform growth stocks.

Funny this fund is never in my radar, perhaps its risk rating of 10 automatically algozen™ discard it. But looking at its three year average volatility, its risk rating should not be classify as ten. Strange why does FSM classify it as risk rating of ten (very high risk).

Xuzen

Personally, it looks kind of rich to me (the value held ran up already high in terms of average Vs stand. dev.).
BTW - i'm on PRS that feeds into this & trigger to top-up preferred is $0.6x
or
by end Oct 2016 heheh, for the tax relief & getting more properties-based assets ma,
whichever comes first.

+ my sis' is invested too (cash), thus i'm looking at it on/off.

Note - no expert here ya, just my PoV

Anyone can commend on REIT from the perspective of property market?

NAV growth of REIT comes from two factors:
1. rental income
2. fair value adjustment of properties

No. 2 is likely to be muted in the next few years.
Will the rental income be stable?

for those that wanted to know about what reits is, what are the benefits and the risks, can try this site....

http://www.moneysense.gov.sg/Understanding...ent-Trusts.aspx

the posts direction here are really creepily scary on a personal level. just last weekend i was reading up on REIT funds and already made a savings plan for it. Now, ppl are talking about it. Creepy creepy coincidences

any advice on where to start for a new investor? i almost done with all the "getting started" guide on FSM. haven't open an account yet.

suggest you aim 99 to the fund you want. creating a portfolio suits you. take the 1% sc advantages 1st.

then can carry out DCA...

**based on my shallow knowledge of investment

This post has been edited by [Ancient]-XinG-: May 10 2016, 06:07 PM

Many moons ago I bought some REIT funds in FSM. Then I sold it off. I can't remember the reason. Was it because the risk rating is 10 for most REIT funds?

Just out of curiosity.

Fixed Income SC is 0% and intra switching is RM 25.
If I am interested in a particular equity fund by fund manager XYZ, can I purchase that fund manager fixed income bond at 0% and then switch to the particular equity at RM 25 to avoid the 2% SC I'd have to pay otherwise if I bought it directly? Has anyone tried this before?

any guide i can read thru on how to choose a fund? Having a medium to high risk tolerance. Now most of my cash just sitting in fd (also a lurker in fd thread). so i thought of trying FSM for a change and put some thing here to try out.

also what is DCA?

I will try to go thru all the FSM thread and read thru them but at v14 i think it will take some time. hopefully i might picked up something useful in the discussion.

Can just buy what lowyat forumers recommend.
People who have done that, their return is still positive.
DCA = buy monthly regardless of price.

hey, u r here also. haha. i cant jst do that. i still need to learn about things myself. i wont do things blindly...