SS0303 發表於 17-6-14 11:33
Yes, I did not read thru the details.
I belief there is no such thing as free lunch, but find it ha ...
If he know what exactly happen, potential risk and decide it is worth to buy, no need to stop him.
If he does not know the detail, explain to him and let him make the decision himself. If stop him as you believe the risk and reward is not justified, he will be very upset when the fund perform...
At the end of the day, diversification is key of thumb of investment. So he should not heavily invest in it even he is happy about the risk and reward of it.
When you buy fund, you will be shown the fund factsheet.
In factsheet, you can check few things:
(1) morning star rating. More star means higher rating
(2) investment objective. It define the mandate of the fund manager like what they can buy, % of allocation of various region and asset class. Like it may say invest 100% in HK equity mkt etc.
(3) Top existing holding. you can see what exactly the fund hold. If it is bond fund, it maybe corporate bond, preference share etc. You can check few of thing to see if you like it.
(4) Historical performance. You can see the net asset value and the dividend paid per unit of fund. If you see the nav per unit dropping consistently, you should know what happen. Either the bond not performance or dividend is paid out from the asset it hold.
(5) Charge: like redemption, inception, annual management fee
I would like to remark that the performance in the chat is before fee adjustment most of the case. So you may ask the agent to confirm it.
For the sale of mutual fund, it is bit tricky. You do not know what price it can sell. The idea behind is the fund manager need time to sell the holding (under your fund unit) in order to give you the money. So it normally takes few days and the price will be confirmed only when you are paid.
Thats the point i do not like most as i cannot be sure the price that i can sell my unit.
Also, bond market can be become illiquid during extreme market. Eg: DB coco can crash from 100 to below 80 in few days last year due to some news. And sometimes there is no bid in the market. At that point of time, the fund house may not allow the redemption. So you cannot liquidate your fund unit.
Hope it can give you a rough picture.
Also, it s just something coming from my memory. If anything is wrong or too brief, please feel free to comment and discuss.
mm.. we should not treat fund as a 洪水猛獸. It did has function long time ago (before ETF, globalisation). It allows small investor to invest in different asset class, asset in different region. Before internet it is not easy for people to access news on various market promptly. So it is hard for small investor to make investment decision.
Now there are many securities houses help us to access different market or we can invest different market via ETF. So I think traditional fund is already sunset industry that is going to be replaced by technology (just personal thought).
Anyway, back to your question. The agent must print the fund factsheet to you. The factsheet must be the fact but of coz the way they presented maybe biased. So you have to digest first before making any decision.
High return must have higher risk. Low return does not necessarily implies less risk.
If you do not have time to digest etc, i will suggest to buy tracker fund ETF which incur lower cost and the stock holding is reviewed regularly.
I got a feeling that the existing level is bit high. So it is better to buy it in monthly basis but not in one shot.
Also, diversification is the most important key for investment. You should keep some cash for your liquidity (3-6months monthly expense) and put some in "risk free" or low risk asset like fixed deposite. Also, I would suggest to save some foreign currency as well like EUR/GBP/CNH.
If you have more than one property, you can treat the extra properties as part of your portfolio which should be under your HKD asset. Then you may consider to invest in other market and avoid too concentrated in HK market.