Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) is a state-owned investment fund composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or other financial instruments.
The funds assets are coming from balance of payments surpluses, official foreign currency operations, the proceeds of privatizations, fiscal surpluses, and from commodity exports.
Foreign currency reserve assets held by monetary authorities, state-owned enterprises, government-employee pension funds, and assets managed for the benefit of individuals are not categorized as a sovereign wealth fund.
The objective of sovereign wealth fund are to
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Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) through Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad, launched Amanah Saham Didik (ASD) fund on the 20th of April 2001. The fund objective is to provide investment opportunity that generates reasonable long-term growth and return.
ASD is a equity growth fund with fixed-price at RM1.00 per unit. The allocated fund size is 4.5 billion units and it is open to all Malaysian Bumiputera. It is also eligible for EPF withdrawal.
The table below is the historical dividend rate since the fund was launched in 2001. However, the first dividend payment is made in 2002. This table is no longer maintained, for the latest dividend rate kindly refer to this page.
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Every beginning of the year The Edge Malaysia, make a recommendation on the counters to Watch for that year. This year, they recommend 10 counters to look into based on companies fundamental and share price valuation.
Before we see the 2010 list, we look at the performance of their 2009 stock pick. In 2009, The Edge recommend 20 counters in their watch list. Overall the The Edge stock picks in 2009 outperformed Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) with an average gain of 68% versus 45% gain for KLCI. In the investors sell the counters at the peak of the share price, the gain is higher at 78.5%.
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CIMB Islamic, Islamic banking arm of CIMB Group recently launched a new Islamic Structure Fund called Best of Asian Giants Access NID-i. This fund is to addresses the need of investor for a combination of safe, regular income and the potential arising from the expansion of China and India.
Best of Asian Giants Access NID-i has an unique aspect called “best performer feature”. It will automatically selects the best possible access to China and India’s economic growth, provide unlimited variable annual returns. CIMB claim this feature as good as investing with Hindsight.
The minimum investment amount is RM65,000 and in further multiplies of RM5,000, thereafter. It opened for subscription for a limited offer period that ends on Feb 3.
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January 14, 2010
Credit Card
Affin Bank,
Alliance Bank,
AMEX,
Balance Transfer,
CIMB Bank,
Citibank,
Direct Access,
EON Bank,
Maybank,
MBF Cards,
Standard Chartered,
UOB
A credit card balance transfer is the transfer of the balance or debt in a credit card account to an account held at another credit card company.
Due to recent credit card tax imposed by government, many credit cards issuers is doing balance transfer promotions as part of their strategy to retain its customer. The credit card issuers are giving a great promotions ranging RM50 rebate per balance transfer to 0% interest free balance transfer. Actually this is great for customers. It will offer great saving for those who would like to use this facility.
If you have unsettle credit card debt, it is wise to do balance transfer in order to save the interest. With such a low balance transfer fee, it is certainly much better than personal loan to clear out credit card debt.
Below are list of recent balance transfer promotion.
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