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I recently found out about fund super mart, and I am interested in expanding part of my portfolio to include mutual funds especially since I will be spending the next 2 years serving NS and won't have much time to track the stock market actively.
I was wondering if anyone here has experience/ knowledge with regards to mutual funds in general and/or fundsupermart.
What should I look out for when investing in a mutual fund? Are there any strategies? How should I carry out my analysis? Fundamentals or technicals?
This is a new area for me, help and advice is much appreciated.
I recently found out about fund super mart, and I am interested in expanding part of my portfolio to include mutual funds especially since I will be spending the next 2 years serving NS and won't have much time to track the stock market actively.
I was wondering if anyone here has experience/ knowledge with regards to mutual funds in general and/or fundsupermart.
What should I look out for when investing in a mutual fund? Are there any strategies? How should I carry out my analysis? Fundamentals or technicals?
This is a new area for me, help and advice is much appreciated.
Sam
Hi Samuel,
I think fundsupermart has its recommendations on funds, which you can use as referance.
Another "streetsmart" strategy is ever year in Jan, look at the Worst performing country for stock market in the previous year. Based on my experience, typically the country that did badly in previous year tend to "recover" in current year and do well. One recent Real Life Example: China was worst market in year 2008 but was amongst the Best performing market in year 2009.
Cheers!
Dennis Ng - When You Master Your Finances, You Master Your Destiny
Note: I'm just sharing my personal comments, not giving you investment advice nor stock investment tips.
Besides the single and over-simplistic criteria of worst performing country, can we add at least 1 more criteria, that is:
the country must have good potential for strong growth/recovery.
In this case, China still has a lot of potential to grow, after last year's decline.
But if Europe does poorly this year & the fundamentals don't change, I am not so sure whether that region will rebound next year.
For Japan, their economy has been quite stagnant for many years.
Therefore I would like to suggest looking out for "worst performers" among emerging markets and then try to buy on dip.
wemakebread wrote:Besides the single and over-simplistic criteria of worst performing country, can we add at least 1 more criteria, that is:
the country must have good potential for strong growth/recovery.
In this case, China still has a lot of potential to grow, after last year's decline.
But if Europe does poorly this year & the fundamentals don't change, I am not so sure whether that region will rebound next year.
For Japan, their economy has been quite stagnant for many years.
Therefore I would like to suggest looking out for "worst performers" among emerging markets and then try to buy on dip.
Hi wemakebread,
yes, thanks for this good reminder. Yup, in my opinion, Japan is the "Land of the Setting Sun", so should be excluded.
Cheers!
Dennis Ng - When You Master Your Finances, You Master Your Destiny
Note: I'm just sharing my personal comments, not giving you investment advice nor stock investment tips.
