Public Strategic SmallCap Fund (PSSCF)

Public Mutual Berhad is launching a new fund on 20 March 2012. It is a small cap fund named Public Strategic SmallCap Fund or PSSCF.

A similar fund launched on year 2000 named Public SmallCap Fund (P SmallCap) is rated as among the best performing fund by various rating agencies. The P SmallCap fund is almost sold out now. And could be the reason why Public Mutual Berhad is launching the Public Strategic SmallCap Fund now, which have many similarities.

Here are some details for now:-

Offer
There are offers on the service charges for initial investment from 20 March to 9 April. Refer to attached image for detail.

I could provide brochure or prospectus for those who like to learn more about the fund before investing.

Unit trust investment dividend for Jan 2012

Malaysian unit trust investment fund manager, Public Mutual Berhad declare dividend for 4 funds on 31 Jan 2012 as shown on this table below:-

Fund Name	Code	Distribution		Growth (%)
		Cents	%
Public Index Fund	PIX	6.50	8.51	0.27
Public Islamic Optimal Growth Fund	PIOGF	1.50	5.14	3.26
Public Enhanced Bond Fund	PEBF	3.75	3.53	4.29
Public Money Market Fund	PMMF	2.50	2.43	2.82

Public Mutual Berhad is Malaysia’s largest private unit trust company in Malaysia. It manages 91 funds and has more than 2.6 million account holders. As of 30 December 2011, the total net asset value of the funds managed by the company was RM44.8 billion.

PIX - Public Index Fund performance study

Public Index Fund will be issuing dividend end of this month. Let take a look at the performance of this fund so far since 1-Feb-2011.

PIX Public Index fund

As you notice from the chart above, there should be almost no capital growth in the financial year ending in 31-Jan-2012. As of 27-Jan-2012 it has recorded a growth of only 00.48%. This is inline with all other unit trust fund performance for same period and stock market.

But historically, this fund been giving out good dividend even during very bad time.  Here are the dividend rates since year 2007:-

2007 =   7.9% (growth +33.29%)
2008 = 23.9% (growth +19.82%)
2009 = 10.5% (growth -36.07%)
2010 =   7.8% (growth +45.02%)
2011 =   8.2% (growth +23.15%)

So what could be the rate for FYE 2012?.... :-)

We will find out two days. Standby.