QUOTE(spiderman17 @ Dec 5 2017, 05:56 PM)
how about you? are you thinking about buying IDS?
i noticed you don't have a malaysia-focused fund in your portfolio.
is the market PE on the high side based on your opinion?
i have KGF. i'm still thinking if i should add IDS or not...
any thoughts?
I did invest IDS, but sold the last batch in October.
I was very lucky, invested IDS since April at price 0.45xx to 0.59xx and start to sell in August and sold the last batch on 17 Oct at price 0.6017.

, almost at the peak.
I sold IDS mainly because i don't know what I had invested to. It updated its factsheet every 3 months, but without updating their top holding. I don't know what it is holding...
By looking at annual report, IDS number of unit holders in whole Malaysia is 60 only.

Do u sense any risk behind this number? I do.
Normally, i don't include Msia EQ in my UT portfolio because i am holding quite a lot of (to me) Msia blue chips stock (Maybank, TNB, Maxis etc), which i bought >10 years ago. Moreover, I don't have confidence to Msia market especially before election, as I still can remember clearly that how the stock sank right after the election of 308. Furthermore, currently, PMI is <50 for years, Companies earning is below historical average level.
To me, i don't agree with FSM who allocating 15% to malaysia fund. I personally think that the risk of Msia EQ is almost same with India EQ, as both of them are emerging market with high GDP growth rate, and both of them (stock and currency) are easily be manipulated by foreign fund.
Malaysia Fund is also single country fund, and malaysia stock market is too small, therefore easily be manipulated/impacted by foreign inflow. But, if without enough foreign inflow, malaysia stock market is very boring one, flat for months.
This post has been edited by i1899: Dec 5 2017, 09:01 PM