you can do so at fundsupermart.com.my i joined them last week and have since bought my first fund. they are popular in singapore and hong kong where a larger variety of funds are offered. so no worries about reputation, they r established and reputable. for the malaysian version, there are limited funds available now, but more will be added soon

You cannot buy any MAAKL or Public Mutual funds online currently. You still have to go through physical consultants.
Consider ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) though, which I believe can be done online through brokers (just like normal stocks).
For newly launched Fundsupermart, you can only buy funds which have tied-up with them (eg OSK-UOB, RHB, Pheim, Prudential, etc).
You can check from their website for the complete list at http://www.fundsupermart.com.my/main/home/index.svdo

HLG Vietnam Fund:

Price on 20-JUN-08 = 0.5074
Price on 29-AUG-08 = 0.7738 (+52.5%)

unfortunately this is open to 'qualified' investors only as this is a wholesale fund...

Hi bros, any1 here heard of MAXXlink from UOB? i juz sign-up 1. is a good fund investment?

Hmm, actually you should have asked BEFORE buying into any funds. That is the right thing to do.
I am intrigued by how so many people can buy into something they don't know, yet saying "I bought Fund X, you think it's good?" Sorry no offence, but as a consultant, my job is to let prospective investors know that they should do their own due diligence before buying any funds.

Anyway, I hope it is not too late for you as the cooling-off period is only 6 days~

How about Public Ittikal Fund? I am eyeing on it. I think it is good for long term investment. The annual dividend is around 7 sen per year. Considering the price at 80 sen now looks quite attractive. Can encourage ppl buying into it i think.

In unit trust, you can't do comparison like that. The annual distribution is not stable, as it can go up to 15 sen or even 0 sen. So, if you look at just the distribution at 7 sen now (8.8% DY), so what if there's no distribution for the next FY? Your DY will equal to ZERO. Also, that distribution was paid out based on last year's superbull performance. Since we are facing a little "shake" now, what you think this year's distribution would be? I am suggesting something around 3.5 - 4 sen. So, if you sell to clients by saying "Hey look, our DY is 8%, it is a good buy". Then imagine this year's distribution is going to be 4 sen, at the price of 0.80, the yield is 5%. How would you explain to your clients?

So to put it simply, research on the fundamentals and look into the portfolio of the fund. Make a detailed analysis of the prospects, and then decide if it is a good buy for long term. So when your clients need your explanation, show them your analysis. Then they will trust you more and have confidence in you.

The best way is the let them know what company Public ittiikal invested into. That is the most important things right?

If they know so much about the companies, then why should they invest into unit trust in the first place? We as consultants SHOULD be the one doing the analysis and showing them the prospects of those companies, NOT simply telling them the names of the companies only.

Most of Public and PM equities funds always consist Pbbank as their top 5 holdings.

I believe most of the equity funds in Msia will hold PBBANK as their top 10 holdings, as PBBANK is one of the most potential companies in Msia, in terms of growth and dividend yield.

My opinion,
The main reason of why most funds tend to hold Pbbank is that, there are not much choice for big cap blue chips in Malaysia if excluding the GLCs (which performance wise most always lack behind KLCI benchmark).

how can i know more about what company the fund is investing on?as far as I can know, PM only list out 5 of their biggest investment for each fund

Try to get the annual report of that fund if you can. From there you can know the full list of investment by that particular PM fund.

Hi, SG no.1 unit trust distributor fundsupermart.com is now in Malaysia.

Bernama News

Sales Charge is only 2%.

Any one tried it?

As mentioned earlier, there is limitation as to which types of funds you can buy from fundsupermart.com since it is still new.
A lot of other fund houses are still reluctant to open up to these lower sales charge. This will hurt their bottomline a lot, considering their earnings would be cut into half (even more for some). Those big players would not really participate in this because their agency can handle the job as well, and they have built their names in the industry. Participating in fundsupermart.com also means cutting their agency, which they don't really want to do

HwangDBS IM declares income distributions

KUALA LUMPUR HwangDBS Investment Management Bhd (HwangDBS IM) declared annual income distributions of four sen for its Dana Fahim Fund and five sen for Dana Izdihar Fund.

It said on Monday the income distributions were for the two funds’ financial year ended Aug 31. The Dana Fahim Fund is an Islamic growth and income type fund while the Dana Izdihar Fund is an Islamic growth type fund.

The annual gross income distribution of four sen for Dana Fahim Fund’s FY Aug 31 was its third and final distribution since its launch on June 28, 2004.

The Dana Fahim Fund posted total growth of 22.96% on its NAV per unit since inception and all the unit holders registered as at Aug 22 were eligible for the income allotment.

HwangDBS IM also declared an annual gross income distribution of five sen for Dana Izdihar Fund’s FYAug 31. This is its sixth and final distribution since its launch in October 2002.

HwangDBS IM chief executive officer Teng Chee Wai said the Dana Izdihar Fund’s specific focus and favour for companies that practised good corporate governance had benefitted the Fund.

Teng said these securities generally command higher market valuation and would potentially yield better returns over a medium investment horizon.

As for Dana Fahim Fund, its focus would continue to provide investors an affordable access into a diversified investment portfolio containing a “balanced” mixture of quality Shariah-compliant equities and sukuk with similar attributes.

Teng said HwangDBS IM intended to maintain a defensive stance in the interim in-light of uncertainties prevailing in the local markets.

“Domestic equity portfolios will continue to hold a high level of cash holdings and the company will patiently wait for further clarity in local and regional markets before seeking to deploy cash into equities,” he said.

URL: http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...32&sec=business

Looking at the current share market poor performance condition, what do u all think about topping up investment in such investment linked funds and unit trust? Would it be a good timing?

And anyone knows where can we access the historical value (last 5 year) & nta of these funds where we can analyse the fund position now, apart from the respective funds' own website as the information is too scattered to do a meaningful analysis especially most don't publish their fund's price chart.

Btw anyone has been tracking Prudential's investment linked fund especially Prulink Equity, Prulink Managed and Prulink Bond? Any reason why these funds (except Bond,lar) have been able to maintain their unit price around RM2 region despite the poor performance of the bursa?

http://www.invest.com.my/personal/funds/compare/

here u go