Something to remember when you try to time the market - For foreign funds forex plays an important role on top of the ups and downs in various equity markets
In fact forex would have more certainty in predicting if the fund would go up/down than the market indexes because the fund may or may not invest in the indexed stocks and the weightage in each top holding and market is also dynamic. The only information you have is fact sheet which is at least 1 month old
My simple solution to that is, I don't try to time the market, because I suck at it
Hmm, the answer to this question is rather complex
Each class would be translated to its denominated currency on daily basis
So although the exchange rate for 13/10/15 and 13/10/16 for USD:SGD is identical, in between there were lots of fluctuations and the transactions took place during the year would be affected by those fluctuations
The only instance where it would be exactly the same would be during the RM pegging of USD at 3.8 because there were no forex movement in the whole year.
Hope that makes sense
Anyway, is this an important consideration? The SGD and USD class as I understand is to be distributed by CIMB in other Asean countries instead of Malaysia. If you invest in the MYR class just focus on the MYR performance lor
Yes! Bear in my mind now. RSP will be more comfortable all the time.