Public Mutual Fund is designed for target the small investor. In fact, there are a lot of millionaires and corporates invest in Public Mutual Fund also. This is because Public Mutual Fund is easy to manage, low risks comparing with properties investment and stock market investment, and the return is better than fix deposit or EPF interest rate in Malaysia.
Some other benefits are listed below. Happy Reading!!
1. Small investment cost
You can start your investment with minimum amount of RM1000 and RM100 thereafter. It is impossible for you to invest in properties with RM1000, but you can start to invest in equity mutual funds that are investing in properties with RM1000. Public Mutual will pool the money from different small investors for properties investment. All investors will share the profits and lose.
2. Practice as regular saving
You can invest in Public Mutual Fund for RM100 only every month, that is equal to RM3.33 everyday. This investment can be done automatically through your saving account. It is very useful for you to practice as your children's education fund, retirement planning, car purchase, household utilities purchase, family vacation and etc.
3. Better return
Public Mutual Fund provides better return than fix deposit and EPF interest rate. Our fix deposit interest rate is getting lower and lower. The EPF interest rate is fluctuating and slightly higher than FD rate. The returns are impossible for us to cover the high-raised cost of our living, and inflation in Malaysia. Thus, invest in Public mutual fund can help your money to grow faster because your money is managed by professional fund manager.
4. Lower risks
Investing in mutual fund comes with risks but not so high if comparing to stock market investment. You can choose equity funds that comes with higher return and higher return, or the fixed income funds with lowers return and lower risks. The risks are minimized due to diversification of your money to a few companies by the mutual fund manager.
5. Invest in foreign stock market
If you are interested to gain more exposure and grab the profits from the markets outside Malaysia, Public Mutual has quite a number of funds with different risks profile for you to choose from.
6. Free insurance coverage
Some Public mutual funds give free insurance coverage for their investors. This will be good for your children's education planning fund, because your children will be covered by free insurance also.
7. Invest with EPF
Malaysian can have a choice to invest Public Mutual Fund with their savings inside EPF account 1. If you are not satisfied with the interest rate of 4.5% by EPF, then you can choose to invest in mutual fund with possible return of 100%. For youngsters, this will be a great choice for you since you may not have too much cash in hand for investment.
8. Free Will writing service
For big investors that have invested RM100K and above, either by cash or EPF, you are given free services of will writing and nomination. This is quite possible to achieve if you use EPF for your investment. There are a lot more privileges for big investors, who will be granted as mutual gold member.
9. Liquidity
Easily be sold within a short period of time, Public Mutual Berhad is always ready to buy. Normally proceeds paid within 10 days or faster. So, you don't have difficulties to sell even the price is very high. In direct share market, you can not sell easily when the price is high unless other investors are willing to offer the high price to buy from you.
10. Professional management
Public mutual fund managers are professional. They'll ensure that your investment is structured properly and follows the basic investment principles. They'll manage your investment and so reduce your risks. If you manage to get a professional unit trust consultant, it will be very difficult for you to lose your investment.
Interesting isn't? So what are you waiting for? Hurry up, find your nearest Public Mutual Brunch or make an appointment with me, a Registered Unit Trust Consultant. I will clearly further explain to you about Unit Trust in Public Mutual.
If you need Further Explaination on Unit Trust Investment in Public Mutual,
Kindly Contact me;
Ahmad Sharqowi,
Registered Unit Trust Consultant,
+60176268229 / ahmadsharqowi@gmail.com