Monday, December 20, 2010

Why Unit Trust Scheme (UTS) investment?

Unit trust is a form of collective investment that allows investors with similar investment objectives to pool their funds to be invested by professional fund manager in a portfolio of securities. Benefits of investing in unit trust are as follows:
  • Professional Fund Management
    • Unit trusts are managed by the approved professional fund manager, ensuring that decision making is structured and based on sound investment principles.
  • Diversification
    • Unit trusts help you diversify your investments in a portfolio of securities to minimize risk and volatility.
  • Capital appreciation / income stream
    • Unit trusts provide you with the opportunity to reap the capital growth and/or income stream as return on investment.
  • Investment Exposure
    • Unit trusts make it possible to spread your investments and gain exposure to various asset classes and/or countries
  • Liquidity
    • Unit trusts allow you to easily buy or sell your investments with minimum hassle. Investors will receive their redemption proceeds within 10 days.
  • Flexibility & Affordability
    • You can start your investment with as low as RM1,000 and top it up with a minimum of only RM100.
  • Comfort of Regulatory
  • Advantages of Compounding
    • Unit trusts allow you to reinvest the income/distribution to accumulate growth.