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Trend Following with Michael Covel in Singapore

Michael Covel, the author of the best Trend following book is in Singapore, he will be giving a talk on trend following with ShareInvestor

Check out more on www.Shareinvestor.com website! http://www.shareinvestor.com/sg 

How does Trend Following work?

Trend following is a very straightforward trading strategy that can extract profits from up, down and black swan markets (rare or surprise events). For example, pretend you have no idea what way a market will go or for how long. Trend followers simply say that if Apple is trading at price level 300 and it starts to go higher -- buy Apple.

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52 Weeks High Stocks

Attached here with recent 52 Weeks High Stocks from Singapore market. 

You may want to know why 52 Weeks High or Low Stocks: Click here to learn more. 

Silver good to buy now?

Since 2011, where Silver peak at $48, and now Silver is just around $16 dropped more than 70%, is it a good time to pick up some Silver? Base on our system, looking at the Silver ETF, SLV is quite a trending chart, our system gave a Bullish Signal recently, telling us a potential bullish mid term trend ahead, with a stoploss at $14.90.

SLV is listed it NYSE, you can trade is using cash to long, Phillip CFD to Long and Short. Can do turnaround short if we see bearish signal.

Yuuzoo up 45% since our previous post

Last week on 17 November, we post Yuuzoo signaling that there is a change in trend if the stock can close above 0.35, today Yuuzoo is already trading at 0.515, up 45% from 0.35. 

http://www.andy-yew.com/2014/11/yuuzoo-break-above-resistance-sign-of.html

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 Currently Yuuzoo is running fast on strong uptrend, some may ask how can you take profit?
There are few ways you can protect your profit
1) Yuuzoo is making new high every day and Higher low every day, put a stoploss at previous day low.
2) Take half profit now, keep the other half on trailing stop below previous day low/ 2day low
3) Take half profit and keep other half on trailing stop using 10 days moving average, sell if price fall below 10days moving average.

OCBC due for 10% Profit taking

Since the previous correction, we have see OCBC rally 10% from its bottom, we are proud to say that our system have successfully caught the bottom of the Market again, and successfully help many of our friends to buy OCBC at $9.57, now it is up near 10% we see that there might be a high chance that Fund managers that entered at the low price might want to secure some profit, putting some profit in their pocket. If you look at the above chart, most of the rally is between 5-10%. after that price goes into not so exciting trend.

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On 17 Oct, Our Bottom Master system shows signal on OCBC and M1, 20 Oct, bottom master signal for ChipEngS and SarineTech, successfully help us catch the bottom. To find out more on the method to catch bottom, do catch us on our upcoming seminar!

Can you make 35% returns in Genting Singapore?

Previously we talked about Why Genting is Dropping, one of the reason is due to the Global sector of Gaming, fund managers are dumping Gaming stocks globally. Our Genting Singapore is one of the weakest stock during the Gaming stock bull run in 2012-2013( Compare to LVS, WYNN, Galaxy Entertainment) and this time round where the all the Gaming stock is dropping, Genting Singapore just follow.

Read more on my previous post:

http://www.andy-yew.com/2014/09/why-genting-singapore-is-dropping.html

So now it is bullish already?

Base on our Trend follow system, Green candle represent Bullish, Orange represent Bearish, the purple line represent the Resistance. Currently Genting Sing resistance is at $1.12, meaning if the price can close at/above $1.12 the system will give a Bullish Signal.

If you have traded Long from Green to Orange only using the system since 2013, your return will be around 11% in 3 Long trades

If you have traded both Long and Short for this counter using our system since 2013, your return will be around 35% in 6 long and short trades

If you buy in 2013 at 1.30 and hold till 1.12, your return will be around -14%

This is Why and How we use our system. You don't need to predict where the price is going, just follow the trend using our system!

Learn the Strategy on how can you Escape the big crash even before it happen! 
How to have a Systematic way to ride a Big Trend!

Dates (Select one):
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Silverlake trend weakening

Silverlake,one of the most uptrending stock in Singapore market, recently start to drop sharply after Ex dividend, this could be seen as investor leaving this stock. Our Smart money index indicator show this too. Our SuperTrend system has turned Green candles to Orange candle giving us a bearish signal, this stock could go sideway or down in near term, as a trader we will trade the Bullish signal when it comes out again.

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How to have a Systematic way to ride a Big Trend!

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Centurion is look like waking up !

Centurion price has been moving in side way recently after dropping from it peak at 0.80. Current price is trading at 0.56. Our system show blue arrow and blue bar recently and today it has moving up from it resistant 0.55 to trade at 0.56 (see 2nd chart). If enter long, cutloss price will be at 0.53. 

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How to have a Systematic way to ride a Big Trend!

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Yuuzoo break above resistance, sign of trend change?

Yuuzoo, previously know as W corp, according to our system it has been going downtrend since July 2014, despite the good news of Yuuzoo taking over the company, the price still hit resistance an make a lower low. After consolidating for the past 2 week, we see positive price movement last friday and today. Our chart indicate that if price break above 0.345, there might be a change in trend from downtrend to uptrend. 

If the price fall back to below 0.30, that is where we think downtrend might continue(cut your losses).

Below is some of the information/story of Yuuzoo, the first social media company listed in SGX.

YuuZoo completes reverse takeover of W Corporation 16 Sep 2014 Channelnewsasia

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/singapore/yuuzoo-completes-reverse/1365096.html

Social media and e-commerce firm YuuZoo has completed its reverse takeover of W Corporation to become one of the first social media firms to list on the Singapore Exchange

aseanequities.com FEATURE : UNCOVERING AND UNDERSTANDING YUUZOO CORPORATION

Largest capitalised stocks with Indonesia business !

• More than 80 stocks listed on SGX report a revenue percentile to Indonesia - ranging from 1 to 100 percent. Of these stocks, there are 13 with market cap above S$250 million reporting more than half their revenue, income or assets to Indonesia.
• These 13 stocks have generated mixed performances in the year to date, averaging a 0.6% YTD total return. This takes the average three year total return of the ten stocks that have been listed for the duration to 43.4%.
• The five best performing stocks of the 13 in the year thus far have been Sinarmas Land, FIRST REIT, Petra Foods, Bumitama and Jardine Cycle & Carriage.

Indonesia’s primary listed stocks currently maintain a market capitalisation of US$406.5 billion, which is less than half the size of its US$868.3 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2013. Like China, Indonesia’s ratio of market capitalisation to GDP is between 40 and 50 percent.

There is no practical rule of thumb that a developing or developed economy must have a certain market capitalisation to GDP ratio – for instance according to Bloomberg, Japan’s primary market cap is 78% of its GDP and Malaysia’s primary market cap is 172% of its GDP. However, one possible inference is that the higher the GDP growth or trade expansion of a country, the more likelihood of some overlapping businesses on neighbouring international stock markets.  China maintains the highest GDP in Asia and Indonesia maintains the highest GDP in ASEAN.

Hence, there are also a number of stocks listed on Singapore Exchange (SGX) that report revenue, operating income or base assets in these countries. There are more than 80 stocks that specifically report a percentage of their revenue to Indonesia, that ranges between 1 to 100 percent. This does not include those companies that geographically segment their revenue to the region such as Jardine Matheson Holdings, Wilmar International and Olam International.

Of the 80 or so stocks there are 13 stocks that maintain a market capitalisation of more than S$250 million and reporting half revenue, income or assets to Indonesia. In the year thus far, the largest capitalised stocks that report their majority revenue to Indonesia have performed better than those that report all their revenue to Indonesia. The seven largest capitalised stocks that report partial revenue to Indonesia averaged a 4.4% YTD total return.

The 13 stocks are detailed below. The effect of commodity prices on the two mining, oil & gas plays – RH Petrogas and Geo Energy Resources have been discussed in previous market updates.

Source: Bloomberg & SGX

Together the 13 stocks in the table above have averaged a 0.6% total return in the year to date. This takes the average three year total return of the ten stocks that have been listed for the duration to 43.4%. Over the past three years, the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) generated a 3.6% total return with a 10.0% total return over the past year in Singapore Dollar terms.

The five best performing stocks of the 13 in the year thus far have been Sinarmas Land, FIRST REIT, Petra Foods, Bumitama Agri and Jardine Cycle & Carriage. These are also four of the five largest capitalised stocks that report more than half of their revenue or income to Indonesia. The most recent of the 13 stocks to list is Japfa which, following the latest semi-annual rebalancing, will join the MSCI Singapore Small Cap Index effective 26 November.

Sinarmas Land

Sinarmas Land is involved in developing and leasing properties in countries including Indonesia, China, Malaysia and Singapore. It  also develops and operates country club and golf clubs, and provides consultancy services. Some of its developments in Indonesia include Sinar Mas Land Plaza in Jakarta, Wisma BII in Surabaya, and ITC Roxy Mas in Jakarta. Sinarmas Land has a market capitalisation of S$1.8 billion and generated 2014 year-to-date total return of 26.1%. On 14 August 2014, Sinarmas Land reported revenue of S$433.8 million and profit for the period of S$194.5 million for the half-year ended 30 June 2014 (click here to view). On 4 November 2014, Sinarmas Land announced that the financial results for the period ended 30 September 2014 will be released on 12 November 2014 after trading hours (click here to view). The stock went ex-dividend on 17 June 2014, distributing S$0.005 per share in dividends.

FIRST REIT

FIRST REIT invests in real estate and real estate-related assets in Asia for healthcare purposes. Its property portfolio comprises 15 properties located in countries including Indonesia, Singapore and South Korea. The trust has 11 properties located in Indonesia.

• Siloam Hospitals Purwakarta
• Siloam Hospitals Bali
• Siloam Hospitals TB Simatupang
• Siloam Hospitals Manado & Hotel Aryaduta Manado
• Siloam Hospitals Makassar
• Mochtar Riady Comprehensive Cancer Centre
• Siloam Hospitals Lippo Cikarang
• Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village
• Siloam Hospitals Kebon Jeruk
• Siloam Hospitals Surabaya
• Imperial Aryaduta Hotel & Country Club

FIRST REIT has a market capitalisation of S$891.0 million and maintained 2014 year-to-date total return of 23.3%. On 17 October 2014, FIRST REIT reported gross revenue of S$23.8 million and net property income of S$23.5 million for the third quarter ended 30 September 2014 (click here to view). The stock went ex-dividend on 24 October 2014, distributing S$0.0202 per share in dividends.

Petra Foods

Petra Foods is involved in manufacturing, marketing and distributing chocolate confectionery products. It offers chocolate and sugar confectionary products, including molded chocolate, dragees, enrobed wafers, and wafers and biscuits. The Group has an established portfolio of chocolate confectionery brand names in Indonesia including "SilverQueen" and "Ceres" which were introduced in the 1950's and "Delfi" in the 1980's. Petra Foods has a market capitalisation of S$2.2 billion and generated 2014 year-to-date total return of 20.5%. On 13 August 2014, Petra Foods reported revenue of US$131.8 million and profit after tax and minority interest of US$13.2 million for the three months ended 30 June 2014 (click here to view). On 20 October 2014, Petra Foods announced that the financial statement for the period ended 30 September 2014 will be released today, 11 November 2014, after trading. The stock went ex-dividend on 25 August 2014, distributing S$0.0273 per share in dividends.

Bumitama Agri

Bumitama Agri is involved in the production and trading of crude palm oil, palm kernel and related products. The company sells its products to refineries in Indonesia. It has a land bank of approximately 200,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, and Riau provinces located in Indonesia. Bumitama Agri has a market capitalisation of S$1.9 billion with 2014 year-to-date total return of 17.7%. On 13 August 2014, Bumitama Agri reported profit for the period of IDR344,955 million for the second quarter ended 30 June 2014, an increase from IDR180,679 million for the previous corresponding period (click here to view).

Jardine Cycle & Carriage

Jardine Cycle & Carriage is involved in manufacturing, assembling, distributing, retailing and after-sales service of motor vehicles and motorcycles in countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Myanmar. Through Astra, Jardine Cycle & Carriage is also involved in the cultivation, harvesting and processing of palm oil with plantations in Indonesia covering approximately 284,000 hectares. It has operations in the western Jakarta water utility system, toll road operations and transportation services. Jardine Cycle & Carriage has a market capitalisation of S$14.3 billion and generated 2014 year-to-date total return of 15.2%. On 4 November 2014, Jardine Cycle & Carriage reported revenue of US$14,113 million and profit attributable to shareholders of US$646 million for the nine months ended 30 September 2014 (click here to view). The stock went ex-dividend on 27 August 2014, distributing US$0.18 per share in dividends.

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Ezion, Cordlife falling fast today

 Did you follow our previous post on Ezion @ 1.50, Congrats if you have see that post
Ezion Short term bearish - Andy Yew Nov 04, 2014

Today it fall fast to 1.49, making a new low. for short term trader, remember to put a trailing stop


Another post on Cordlife, short term weakness.
Cordlife Short term weakness Nov 12, 2014

The signals are generated by our ART Postition trade system, with current downtrend market, it is good to scan out that that is downtrending , pullback and ready to down somemore.

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Common Investor Mistakes - Tom Dorsey

Common Investor Mistakes
Below we have listed a few common investor mistakes.
Try to avoid making these mistakes with your investments.
Falling in love with a position. An account has limited capital, so
ask yourself if the position is the best one to be in here. Are you
tying up capital that can be put to better use elsewhere? Don't get
sucked into the fundamental story.that is, don't hold on to a
stock whose technical picture has deteriorated just because you are
intoxicated with the reasons for your choice.
Buying the stock right, but forgetting to sell it right. There
are two foul shots to make successfully with respect to investing.
You must buy the stock right, and then you must sell the stock
correctly. Therefore, once you buy a stock you must review it on
a regular basis; don't just forget about it. Attempt to sink both
foul shots.
Not having a game plan for investing. Investors will haphazardly,
especially in a strong market, pick stocks to buy, thinking that
the stock market is easy to beat. They fail to realize there is risk, not
only reward. Therefore, it is essential to have a game plan that
helps dictate what stocks to buy and when, and also tells you when
to sell or play defense.
Buying stocks that are extended. When you buy a stock that is
up on a stem, it increases your risk and diminishes your potential
reward. Rather, it is best to buy a stock when it pulls back closer to
support, thereby increasing the potential upside reward, and
diminishing the risk to the stop-loss point.
Taking small gains, but not being willing to take small losses.
Be willing to take small losses by adhering to your stop-loss points.
Avoiding large losses will keep you in the game. You will not be
right on every trade, so be willing to bail out and take the small loss
when the technical picture so dictates.
Buying a stock that is trending down, thinking that it is cheap, or a
value. Often, these types of stocks become an even better value
because they continue to fall in price. Ideally, it is best to stick
to stocks that are in an overall uptrend, trading above their bullish
support line and exhibiting positive relative strength. These
are the stocks that are in demand and should be considered for
purchase.
Acting on poor advice, tips, and financial media hype. Many
investors try to get rich quick without doing their homework. They
rely on the TV or financial media to tell them what to buy. Instead,
take the time to educate yourself, to arm yourself with a game plan.
Then you will be able to make sound, informed decisions. Take
responsibility for your own success. Donft rely on get-rich-quick
schemes and rumors. Do your own research.
Getting emotional and not being able to stay objective. Any
investor knows that emotions can be your worst enemy. Try to stay
objective. The point and figure chart helps you accomplish this
because a picture paints a thousand words. When looking at the
chart, cover up the name of the stock. Make your decision on what
the chart is telling you, therefore taking the emotion out of knowing
the name of the stock.

From the book  Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips: A Playbook for Stock Market Success

Will Dual listed H and A share price converge after Hongkong Shanghai Stock Connect?

Some analyst are highlighting that there is a chance that the price will converge after Hong Kong Shanghai stock connect is linked, the stock connect will be launch on 17 Nov 2014, which is next monday. You can buy A share in Renminbi on our POEMS 2.

The reason that why analyst think that price will converge to nearly same price is because, the person E.g Holding China Life under H-Share(listed in HK) will sell away the H-Share, and buy the same China Life under A-Share. Since it it the same company, investor will prefer to own the same share with lesser money.

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Singapore’s expanding healthcare sector !

• Singapore Exchange (SGX) currently lists 23 GICS designated healthcare stocks with a combined market capitalisation of S$25.7 billion and generated an average 2014 year-to-date (YTD) total return of 9.6%.
• The largest capitalised healthcare stocks listed on SGX - IHH Healthcare Berhad and Raffles Medical Group are also in the top five largest capitalised stocks in the healthcare Sector of ASEAN region.
• In 2014 YTD, the five best performers in the healthcare sector were Health Management International, Singapore Medical Group, Q&M Dental Group Singapore, Religare Health Trust and TalkMed Group. They have a combined market capitalisation of S$1.9 billion and generated median 2014 YTD total return of 40.6%.

Source: Bloomberg (Data as of 17 October 2014)*Listed on Catalist

Health Management International

Health Management International (HMI) provides healthcare and educational services in Singapore and Malaysia. The company owns and operates Regency Specialist Hospital in Johor, Malaysia and Mahkota Medical Centre, a tertiary care hospital in Malacca. The company also owns and operates HMI Institute of Health Sciences in Singapore and Mahkota Institute of Health Sciences and Nursing in Malacca, Malaysia.

HMI has a market capitalisation of S$153.1 million and generated 2014 year-to-date (YTD) total return of 86.2% which was the highest among the healthcare stocks. On 28 August 2014, HMI reported profit after tax for the financial year ended 30 June 2014,  increased 88% year-on-year from RM$19.2 million to RM$36.0 million (click here to view more).

Singapore Medical Group

Singapore Medical Group (SMG) is a private specialist healthcare provider with a network of 22 specialties. According to SMG’s corporate website, the Group currently has a total of 12 clinics located in Singapore which include Paragon, Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre and Novena Medical Centre.

SMG has a market capitalisation of S$40.3 million and generated 2014 YTD total return of 61.1%.  On 14 August 2014, SMG reported gross profit for the half year ended 30 June 2014, increased 28.6% year-on-year from S$3.5 million to S$4.5 million (click here to view more).

Q&M Dental Group (Singapore)

Q&M Dental Group (Singapore), together with its subsidiaries, operates a network of private dental outlets in Singapore, Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China. It provides dental healthcare services including aesthetic dentistry, children dentistry, consultation, crowns and bridges.

Q&M Dental Group (Singapore) has a market capitalisation of S$285.7 million and generated 2014 YTD total return of 40.6%. On 13 August 2014, the company reported the completion of the proposed acquisition of Qinhuangdao, China through Q&M China (click here to view more). On 11 August 2014, Q&M Dental Group (Singapore) reported profit net of tax for the quarter ended 30 June 2014, increased 42% year-on-year from S$897 000 to S$1.3 million (click here to view more). The stock went ex-dividend on 19 August 2014, distributing S$0.0041 per share in dividends.

Religare Health Trust

Religare Health Trust is a business trust with a portfolio comprising healthcare assets in India. The company investment mandate is principally to invest in medical and healthcare assets in Asia, Australasia and emerging markets in the world. According to the company corporate website, Religare Health Trust’s portfolio currently comprises 13 clinical operating assets and four greenfield clinical establishments.

Religare Health Trust has a market capitalisation of S$757.4 million and generated 2014 YTD total return of 28.5%. On 13 August, Religare Health Trust reported income available for distribution for the quarter ended 30 June 2014, increased 26% year-on-year from S$11.4 million to S$14.3 million (clickhere to view more). The stock went ex-dividend on 28 May 2014, distributing S$0.0414 per share in dividends.

TalkMed Group               

TalkMed Group provides medical oncology services to the oncology patients under the Parkway Cancer Centre brand name. The company offers its medical oncology services in the areas which include breast, colon, lung and liver. TalkMed Group operates a network of seven clinics in Singapore.

TalkMed Group has a market capitalisation of S$644.0 million and generated 2014 YTD total return of 25.8%. On 7 August, the company reported profit attributable to owners of the company for the quarter ended 30 June 2014 increased 15.1% year-on-year, from S$8.4 million to S$9.6 million (clickhere to view more). The stock went ex-dividend on 13 August 2014, distributing S$0.0213 per share in dividends.

US Stock Seagate(STX) Short Term bullish

Today we did a screening on US stock with our ART position trade system, found a stock that recently break new high, short term retraced abit, and seems like ready to move higher. This stock is Seagate Technology PLC. Our system show a short term bullish signal with yesterday bullish candle, stoploss is suggested to put below the pivot point at $61

Cordlife Short term weakness

Our system screener today give us a bearish signal on cordlife, showing a short term weakness on this stock, currently Singapore market is not so bullish, investor might want to have a hedge portfolio with long counters And some shorts counter. One of our trading philosophy is to short weak counters in a weak market, long strong counters in a strong bullish market.

Above is Chart of Cordlife group limited on our Position Trade System, Red Candlestick show bearish Trend, Red arrows are bearish signals (Stoploss 0.99).For investor who bought this stock at high price, if you have followed our system to exit Cordlife, you should have sold off this share at $1.15, Since September it has down near 20%.

To find out more on our Trading system, we will be sharing more on our upcoming seminar this thursday and friday. Details as below!

Learn the Strategy on how can you Escape the big crash even before it happen! 
How to have a Systematic way to ride a Big Trend!

Dates (Select one):
13 Nov 2014, Thu (English Seminar) 7pm - 10pm
14 Nov 2014, Fri (华文讲座) 7pm - 10pm

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Share buybacks almost reach S$100 million in Oct !

• For the month of October, there were a total of 112,318,000 shares repurchased by 29 stocks with a total consideration of close to S$100 million.
• Among these 29 stocks, four stocks are constituent stocks of the STI – Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Sembcorp Industries, Singapore Airlines and Wilmar International.
• The five stocks with the highest total buyback considerations in dollar terms over October were Singapore Airlines, Wilmar International, Pacific Century Regional Developments, Lian Beng Group and Hyflux. Combined these five stocks spent S$65 million repurchasing their stocks.

Share buybacks a simple process where a share issuer repurchases some of their outstanding shares from shareholders through open market transactions. This can be for a number of reasons.

Some examples are that a company may have surplus cash after taking into account of its ordinary capital requirements and financing for possible projects or it may wish to enhance the return on equity of the company. Additionally, if the company has an employee share option policy, it can also have more flexibility through share buyback to issue and allocate shares based on the share options that are exercised.

Once shares are bought back they will be converted into treasury shares which means that are no longer categorised as shares outstanding. Share buy-back information can be found on the company disclosure pageon the SGX website using the Announcement category and sub category of Share Buy Back-On Market.

For the month of October, there were a total of 112,318,000 shares repurchased by 29 stocks with a total consideration of S$96.6 million. Among these 29 stocks, four stocks were constituent stocks of the Straits Times Index (STI) – Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Sembcorp Industries, Singapore Airlines and Wilmar International.

The table below details the specifics of the buybacks by these 29 stocks. The table is sort by the total consideration amount of October which collates the amount of shares purchased and the purchasing price of the shares. The date of the relevant share buyback mandate is also provided  in addition to the amount of shares authorized to be bought back under the mandate. The total number of shares purchased under the mandate and the percentage of the companies issued shares that have been repurchased under the mandate are also provided. Source: SGX

Source: SGX

We will be sharing more on individual stock chart in our upcoming Free seminar.
Learn the Strategy on how can you Escape the big crash even before it happen! 
How to have a Systematic way to ride a Big Trend!

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Investing in China ETF or Unit trust fund?

Last year October we have already talk about this, why are some unit Trust still worth investing.
Ans: They can outperform the index, give investor more returns than the performance of the index.

We compared First state Regional China Fund and United SSE A50 ETF last year and the First state RC fund out performed SSE A50 ETF. Lets see their performance again, see who is better this round.

http://www.andy-yew.com/2013/10/why-some-unit-trust-is-still-worth.html

First state Regional China Fund Annualized Performance
http://www.eunittrust.com.sg/FundFinder.aspx?f=522040

Period	Performance Returns (%)	Volatility (%)	Return/Volatility Ratio
1 Year	10.9208	11.6385	0.9383
2 Years	12.2868	11.7957	1.0416
3 Years	10.4599	12.2476	0.8540
5 Years	7.4344	13.5174	0.5500
10 Years	11.3109	18.1376	0.6236

United SSE A50 ETF Annualized Performance

http://www.phillipetf.com/FundFinder.aspx?f=001538

Period	Performance Returns (%)	Volatility (%)	Risk Adjusted Performance
1 Year	5.7692	19.4446	0.2967
2 Years	3.5098	21.1046	0.1663
3 Years	-0.7953	20.3087	-0.0392
5 Years	NA	NA	NA
10 Years	NA	NA	NA

Conclusion, First state regional China Fund have higher return with lower volatility. in another words that also means better profit with less fluctuation.

Another instrument you may want to know more(other than Stock and Unit Trust) is the ETF, Exchange Traded Fund. Read the following to understand why some people like to buy ETF.

WHAT ARE ETFs?
ETFs are open-ended investment funds listed and traded on a stock exchange. They aim to track, replicate or correspond to the performance of an underlying index or asset. ETFs provide access to a wide variety of markets and asset classes.  

http://www.phillipetf.com/ETFInfo.aspx

WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES OF ETF?


Diversification through a single investmentWhen you buy an ETF, you gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of securities/assets through a single transaction.  The extent of diversification benefits depends on the components that make up the fund portfolio.

Lower investment costs
An ETF incurs certain fees and expenses such as the fund management fees charged by the ETF manager and other administrative costs.  These fees and expenses are deducted from the ETF assets and the NAV may be reduced accordingly.  Like shares, trading ETFs on an exchange incurs transaction costs including brokerage commissions and clearing fees. As ETFs are passive funds, the annual management fees are generally lower at less than 1% compared to the management fees of 1% to 2% usually charged by most unit trusts or traditional funds.

Access to many markets via a single platform
The range of ETFs offered on an exchange allows investors to access many  markets via a single platform. This provides an alternative for investors who are not able to buy securities listed on foreign stock exchanges easily. 

Transparency
Investors can readily access real-time information such as ETF prices, fund information and index information on the websites of the issuers, index providers and the exchanges’ websites.  Market prices are published real-time through the trading day.

Flexibility
You can buy and sell ETFs anytime during trading hours and may employ the traditional trading techniques including stop order, limit order and short sales.

More information on the Phillip ETF website
http://www.phillipetf.com/ReadPage.aspx?id=64