Not sure which fund refer to. But it is better to buy ETF in general. The bid/ask of ETF is tighter than traditional fund, you can sell as long as the exchange is open (some traditional fund can reject for redemption due to liquidity, even there is market, you cannot sell the fund on spot but need to wait for the fund house to confirm the level you sell after few days). And the most important part is ETF has less management fee.
I randomly picked a book in library written by a retired fund manager and the conclusion of the book is avoid buying tradition fund.
Imagine, the fund house normally charge you few % of management fee, performance fee, commission etc. That implies they have to manage the portfolio that can achieve over 10% return in order to show you a attractive "after fee" return. Is it that easy ? I would say it maybe possible for 1 or 2 years but cant for 10yrs. That's why it is better to buy ETF which incur less management fee and more transparent (the performance is blinded with the index). In fact, there is trend that ETF has taken over the tradition fund house biz due to above reason.
Anyway, if you still have interest in the product from traditional fund house. You have to check the fund holding in the factsheet and know what exactly you buy, how much you pay on management fee, fund size, history etc.
If they can show you 9% yield from bond mkt, the stuff they invested must be very toxic. Like junk bond, coco, convertible bond. Please be reminded that coco/convertible bond in fact is just equity due to the conversion feature. If you still like the risk and think worth to buy, you may take it.
Anyway, do not put all the eggs in the same basket is the rule of thumb of investment (not talking about gambling)
siu_chicks 發表於 17-6-7 18:52
The fund name is
"Allianz Income and Growth", please help to give some comments on this fund.
Interesting topic. There are a lot of tranches for this fund with different currency hedge.
What is the latest price you see? Wanna to see the exact one you have.
I pick one of the tranche and have a quick look
There are many different tranches in this fund. In general, the 1Y price change is up around 2.56%, yield is 9.35% (per annum), yield growth - 4.44% (so drop).
So the annual return is around 12.8% (interest + price gain).
The fund fee: front load : 4%, management 1.5% (annually) Not sure if it is reflected in the fund price.
Holding:
1. it holds series of FX contract to provide the FX hedged return (as the asset mainly in US and Canada but the fund may be denominated in other ccy like hkd/sgd etc)
2. Main equity holding is tech stock like Google, apple, facebook.
3. It also hold some CB/preference share to generate the high coupon.
I do not check if there is similar ETF in the market (mixed with stock and bond). But if i pick the liquid one ETF link SPX, SPY US. Its 1y price change is 14.73% and 1.86% dividend yield. So it is around 16-17% return in total.
The fund fee (expense ratio) is 0.095%. The expense is reflected in the fund price.
==> the different of SPY is that it does not generate monthly interest and all holding is stock. (But the behavior of CB is similar to stock)
Btw, it will be great if you can share how much money you bought, when and how much dividend you receive monthly? No need exact number, you can put it in ratio.
So we can do a straight line comparison.
Also, above is just a quick look to have rough idea. Please feel free to correct me if i am wrong. And happier to have more discussion.
Traditional fund that charge you upload / redemption / management / performance fee is not cost effective and not liquid (you can only sell few days after you place the order). Before having ETF, it did have function that allows small investor to access various market with small amount of money. With the growth of ETF, it always already replaced traditional fund. ETF - less cost, can buy sell in the exchange like equity.
Thats why traditional fund business has been shrinked a lot.
In investment, we cannot control anything except the cost. So i always prefer to pick low cost (overhead) one.
Finally, there is no free lunch in the world. Higher return implies higher risk (more premium).
No. No matter bond fund or just bond itself, they are not capital protected.
Forgot the lehman brother minibond story ? Bond can be defaulted and loss all the thing at the end.
Cant agree it is Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi scheme involves fake reporting, account/balance "manipulation" to mislead the investor.
Fund above is regulated and everything should be audited and well documented. I also believe the agent should present the factual data like yield, historical dividend etc. But did not emphasis the expense ratio etc.
If you read through the detail and digest, you should be able to figure out and judge if it is worth to invest. I guess there may be lot people buying it without understanding the risk and fact behind because it is boring and time consuming to dig the detail and people may think that decision making has to be fast to avoid missing the "chance".
People easily become blind because the sweet part it taste but forget to think how bitter it can be....
cwng3 發表於 17-6-14 11:06
Cant agree it is Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi scheme involves fake reporting, account/balance "manipulation" ...
本帖最後由 SS0303 於 17-6-14 11:39 編輯
Yes, I did not read thru the details.
I belief there is no such thing as free lunch, but find it hard to persuade my brother (with finance background) not to get too heavily involved.
Now, he is thinking putting mum's retirement money (30%) into such Unit Trust.
Not sure what is the best way to advise my mum not to do it.