Saham Amanah Sabah pays out 12% Dividend

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman has declared an income distribution of 4 per cent dividend, or 4 sen per unit, for Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) for 2010. The total payout amounts to RM45.78 million based on 1.14 billion units held by 54,000 unitholders as at December 31 last year. The dividend is closed to 12%, calculating based the current NAV per unit is RM0.3396 as at 6 Jan 2011.

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ASN Dividend Payout At 6%

Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB) today announced an income distribution of 6 cents per unit for Amanah Saham Nasional (ASN) scheme for the financial year ending Dec 31, 2010. This year's income distribution was 0.80 sen higher from the 5.20 sen per unit declared in 2009. 

The income distribution would involve a total payment of RM89.88 million compared with the RM81.52 million paid last year. PNB chairman told reporters that ASN's performance for the year ending Dec 31, 2010 was generally better than last year in line with the encouraging performance of the country’s economy and the stock market.

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8.75% Dividend & Bonus for ASB

Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) has announced Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) dividend today. Without much surprise, ASB unitholders will receive a dividend of 7.50 cents per unit this year compared with 7.30 cents declared last year. One unit is price at RM1.00.

As usual, ASB unitholders will also receive a bonus of 1.25 sen, similar to last year. Thus, the total dividend and bonus to be received is 8.75%, which is 0.2% better than last year.

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6.38% Dividend For AS1M

After waiting for a year, I finally see Amanah Saham 1 Malaysia (AS1M) dividend news this evening. According to PNB, AS1M buyers will be distributed with 6.38 cents per unit! In fact, it shouldn't be a surprise for us, as the KLCI index has been up for more than 250 points, around 21%. Overall, I'm satisfied with the dividend yield, as 6.38% is the slightly better than ASM and ASW2020, 6.30% and 6.35% respectively. 

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Unit Trusts Investment

What do you know about Unit Trust? If you know how to make profit from stock market, does it mean you don't need unit trust anymore? Or what do you think about Unit Trust? Are you already investing it?

Well, for me, Unit Trust is for long term investment. It is lesser volatile and risk than stock market. Of course, with lesser risk and volatile, the gaining percentage will be lower than individual stock when the market is good, while the losing percentage will also lower. With such system, you won't able to see much profit in short term compare to individual stock, no matter how good the fund performance is.

So why we want to invest in Unit Trust then? Simple, with 4 main reasons that I can think of.

(1) Affordable

Yes, this is always the first reason people invest in Unit Trust. With minimum of RM1,000 in Malaysia, you can invest an Unit Trust fund. And with only RM100, you can do dollar-cost averaging twice or once a month. What an affordable investment!

(2) Lesser risk and volatile

When stock market tumble, the best performance funds will always out beat the index. For example, index falls for 40%, the fund might only falls for 30% or less. So there is no way for you to make a loss in long run, good return is guarantee.

(3) Consistent return without knowing what you invest

You don't have to study individual company annual report, wait for quarterly earnings or broker report, perhaps only fund quarter report. You just need to pick the top performance fund/s and follow a workable system, then you will guarantee get good return in long run.

(4) No monitoring required

You don't need to invest your time to monitor daily or weekly price. You just need to make sure the fund you investing is still the top fund and bring you great profit, that's it.

I noticed many unit trust agents are not professional at all. They don't know what they are selling and they just want to earn commission. I talked to few friends of mine, and I verified my findings is true. I'll try to help them, so they can improve their investment return.

The rule of thumb is, you have to know what you invest, and react when necessary.