Unit Trust Investing
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds
ETFs are a great tool for the average investors. Well, they are fantastic tools, if you live in the US. For Singapore folks, there are ETFs listed on SGX as well as HK stock exchange to choose from as well.
Here in an audio interview at financial sense, the author explains
What are ETFs
What are active ETFs
How […]
Warren Buffett: Low Cost Funds win out
Many people have argued about whether it is right to pay large fees for supposed outperformance. I think buffett sums it up best in simple logic:
Everyone expects to be above average. And those helpers - bless their hearts - will certainly encourage their clients in this belief. But, […]
Mines’ Eyes Have Not Seen The Glory
Written by Eli Neusner
March 04, 2008 12:53 PM EST
Gold prices are on a relentless march toward $1,000/ounce. Gold bullion closed on February 29 at $974 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and some precious metals analysts are predicting gold will eventually reach $1,700 an ounce or more.
The reasons for the strong move are […]
Hidden Commodities Exposure
With commodity prices running at a high level in recent weeks, many investors might be tempted to increase exposure by purchasing unit trusts that invest 100% into energy, soft commodities , base metals etc.
I some time feel that i can draw a parrallel comparison to the case of the China bull in street talks with […]
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UOB Gold and General - An underperforming fund
Readers over at SGFunds would have saw my Rant here that I am particularly disappointed with the management of UOB Gold and General. The Amex gold mining index(HUI) and the XAU have made substantial gains in 2 days of trading amount to 9-10% and this fund, which is suppose to invest in mining companies, have […]
Infrastructure Companies & Funds
Drizzt:
I spotted this post by Roger Nusbaum at ETF Investor. He did mentioned a few aspects of infrastructure companies that will be value add to your portfolio. Not the strategic reasons such as deteriorating assets in US but more:
Low Correlation to US stocks
Dividend Yielding
Constant Demand
Toll Business creates a investment moat
However there are negative points as […]
[FAQ] Expense Ratios
Many would think that looking at expense ratio will enable us to know what as investors we are incurring when we look to vest in a fund. However there are costs that are excluded from expense ratio. Taken from a Fidelity report, the list below is not an exhaustive list of items excluded from expense […]
The case for UOB United International Fund
An acquaintence of mine wrote to me his justification why he thinks it is more worthwhile to invest in UOB United International Fund compare to the basic index approach.
“Attached is an analysis of the global equity funds we have in Singapore based on S&P-Funds’ website. It shows that the Infinity Global Stock Fund […]
Sunday Times Article: Surviving Market Turmoil
Just a few observations abt the 4 portfolios.
For the second update running they have been not performing well. This is “expected” by me since the market didn’t do too well to start with. However, this should be evidence that it is damn difficult for knowledgable investors to perform miracles. Out of the 4, I would […]
