Fund choice of the month is published as an article, you can see it on the home page under Funds and personal finance. This month's
https://www.fundsupermart.com.my/main/resea...arch-2017--8056Ninja trick basically mean making use of the credit system that FSM MY has, that everytime you intraswitch within the same fundhouse from an equity fund to a bond fund, you get credit points so that the next time you intraswitch from the bond fund back to equity fund you don't have to pay sales charge again
Some forummer discovered that say if you want to switch from EQ fund from fund house A to EQ fund in fundhouse B which is an interswitch, traditionally you'd need to pay sales charge
But if you are not time sensitive, you can do the following
EQ fund in fundhouse A intra-switch to bond fun in fundhouse A (get credit point)
Then bond fund in fundhouse A interswitch to bond fund in fundhouse B (no sales charge)
Bond fund in fund house B intraswitch to equity fund in fund house B (utilise credit point)
Trouble with this is, it takes about T+4 for each transaction to be recorded before you can move to the next transaction; so all in would take you maybe 2 weeks to complete and by then the prices would have fluctuated and you may lose out as a result. That's the cost of trying to save sales charge
Some of my personal fav includes:
Affin Hwang Select bond fund (aka Esther bond) - stable and around 6% annualised return; some exposure in both MY and asian bonds
Affin Hwang Select Asia (Quantum) fund (aka ponzi1.0)- small and medium cap; some exposure in both MY and ASEAN equity
RHB Asian income fund - mainly bond and REITs, fairly stable; but you can buy the mother fund in FSM SG also
CIMB Asia Pacific Dynamic Income (aka ponzi2.0)- Asian equity fund; quite consistent and covers different type of companies than ponzi 1.0
CIMB global titans fund - developed market equities (US, Europe, Japan); the better ones among the global funds
EI Small cap (aka kapchai) - Msia small cap
RHB Islamic bond - local sukuk
Since you have lots of exposure on asia and global funds I'd recommend for FSM MY you focus on those that you can't buy in FSM SG; particularly Esther bond, ponzi 1.0, kapchai
ponzi 1 only increase by 1%; it's Asia Pac Eq income that increase by 2.4%. Not quite my fav fund, but did make money recently
That ninja trick..is very tedious. Thanks for the education, won't gonna try it tho.
Thanks for the comprehensive list and justifications, do you think its a good time to buy in on those funds right now? BTW how often do you switch funds or what scenario would make you switch? I am asking this because of the associated switching fee and I think it would accumulate to quite some amount.