Cashing Out My Entire Public Mutual Fund

Posted by Kris | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | , | 5 comments »



I just initiated my CASH OUT order to my Public Mutual Fund agent. I want my agent to help me sell all my mutual funds as my funds have already been very profitable especially the Index Fund where I bought in around late 2008 if I am not mistaken for a ~20% gain :)

My view is that the KLCI may not have much room to grow upwards and I am happy with my returns for my slow growing mutual funds. I want to park my money elsewhere. So my agent is very surprised when I initiated my sell call. I actually got questioned on why i want to sell? Here is the main question..Very interesting to know.

Are you planning to become a Mutual Fund agent? Hence you are selling so you can buy unit trust under your own name as buyer and agent? As a lot of my agent client has suddenly become mutual fund agent themselves instead of  buying from my agent (him).

My Answer: NO NO lar..I am too busy with my work to become agent myself(which is the truth, as I am busy with stocks too).

What I wanted To Say But I kept It To Myself Is: I am not that foolish to sell and to buy back under my own name as I will get penalized by another 5.5% load fee when I buy in equity based mutual funds. (Actually load fee is 5.5%-3% = 2.5% , if I am an agent and will be taking in the commissions myself). Furthermore, there is a lot of hidden costs in being a mutual fund agent especially if you don't rake in alot of customers and especially if the sole customer is yourself!!!. Your  annual quota is RM30K for a starter. Not my cup of tea since I don't have a lot of spare time).

Hence, you know that the market for mutual fund agent is very competitive and quite saturated. 7/10 people you know is at one time or another is/was a mutual fund agent. But my agent is smart to realized that, he started a financial consulting agency instead of depending on mutual fund sales.


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5 comments

  1. ChampDog // 12:10 AM  

    KLCI is moving downtrend?

  2. ChampDog // 12:11 AM  

    Btw, what do you plan to do with that money? Buy house? :)

  3. Kris // 6:01 PM  

    @ChampDog,
    I cannot time the market. So I want to cash out my profit.

    I am not sure yet what to do with my money. I will park it into my flexi loan account first :P

  4. Mt. // 1:22 PM  

    true once u stock like a fund manager, its hard to go back to mutual fund. But I still keep DCA running with one or two funds and keep all the 'accounts' separate. That way, even if one day kena gao gao in stock market the worst I can become is a 'normal' mutual fund guy :D

  5. Kris // 1:36 PM  

    Mutual fund tends to be for a longer time horizon for it to bear fruit. :P