I am sorry to hear that. My guess is you must be cheated by agents or simply buy the wrong fund (happen to me before - I choose the wrong fund, paid service charge of 5.5% and get board rates FD return after 3 years

). Now after finding out about FSM and learning about UT (yes, you need to learn how to buy
Cannot main tembak), it's a whole different story. My return so far ~10% since sept 2016 (including service charge)
*** Congratulations on your very healthy return!
I bought mainly PM UT in the early days. All with positive returns.
For me, fees are worth paying if the fund manager is good. If you want to save on fees, go for ETF investing. You won't beat the market but you will get market returns.
Smartly and stashaway in Singapore are going to be ready for investors in 2017. Stashaway will officially open doors in June 2017. Stashaway will charge 0.8% pa platform fees for amount less than SGD25k.
Smartly will charge I think 0.5% pa. Both are automatic robo ETF investing platform which means no monitoring on your part. Buy and forget. You can start with I think SGD1k?
*** Noted and thanks.
Anyway, back to topic. Yes it's under FSM name but nothing to worry about as it's held separately. Each account is held as a trust. So if something happen to FSM, they cannot touch your money as it's held with a trustee. It's licensed by BNM to buy/sell UT.
True. That's the trade off for lower than 2% service charge.
This way of trading also exist in stock broking.
Thanks. So I did not read it wrongly. It is still a worry when one has a big sum in there even with BNM and trustee things.