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Embattled but unbowed.

Asia Asset Management interviews Kenanga Investors' Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer Mr. Ismitz Matthew De Alwis and its Chief Investment Officer, Ms. Lee Sook Yee on the company's recent triumphs at the 2016 Best of the Best Awards....

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The Edge: What's Next for PRS?

Kenanga Investors’ Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer Mr Ismitz Matthew De Alwis was featured in an article published by The Edge regarding the Private Retirement Scheme industry in Malaysia. He highlights the importance of having a diversified portfolio to sustain one’s retirement funds and to refrain from depending on their EPF savings or PRS contributions alone. A well-balance...

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Kenanga Investors at The Edge Thomson Reuters Lipper Awards 2017.

Kenanga Investors recently won Best Equity Group award (Islamic)  at The Edge Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards 2017. The strong outperformance of our funds can be credited to our long term investment philosophy of “bottom-up stock picking” approach which focuses on off-benchmark bets which are often under-researched investment opportunities overlooked by other index trackers....

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Kenanga Sits Among the Top in Asia.

Kenanga Investors was awarded Malaysia Equity Fund for 3 & 10-years performance by Institutional Investor’s 2016 Asia Investment Management Award. This is a testimony of the fund’s consistent performance in delivering solid returns with annualised returns of 14% and 17% respectively.Institutional Investor is the world’s foremost financial magazine with their headquarters in New York. It...

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The Star: Mitigating Extreme Investment Strategies.

Kenanga Investors’ Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ismitz Matthew De Alwis’ article entitled “Mitigating Extreme Investment Strategies” was featured in The Star and The Star Online last weekend.Mr De Alwis advises investors to avoid the two extremes of investment strategies; from overly cautious investors to extreme risk-takers. He explains that using either end of the ...

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The Business Year - Forge Ahead.

The Business Year (TBY) recently interviewed Mr Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Executive Director/CEO of Kenanga Investors on the ASEAN market and the growing success of Islamic finance in Malaysia. TBY is a leading research firm and publisher of annual economic resources on national economies. Each country-specific edition contains a comprehensive range of interviews and analysis, offering an ins...

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Smart Investor's 'Where to Put Your Money in 2017' Roundtable.

The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors was recently invited to a Smart Investor and Bursa Malaysia collaborative roundtable session together with five other industry experts. During the session, they discussed the current economic situation and what 2017 may bring for investors.To help retail investors negotiate the potentially risk waters next year, he advised invest...

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Focus Malaysia: Asia on the rise again

Kenanga Investors was recently invited to participate in a recent media conference which was themed Asian Equities with a 40% Potential Upside.Mr Christopher Kok, Senior Portfolio Manager from Kenanga Investors, together with other industry experts discussed the potential earnings of Asian Equities which have become more attractive due to several factors such as; China’s economic recovery,...

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Ask The Experts: 24% Potential Upside for Asian Equities in Two Years.

Kenanga Investors’ Senior Portfolio Manager, Mr Christopher Kok was featured in Fundsupermart.com’s recent webcast episode of Ask The Experts.In this session entitled 24% Potential Upside for Asian Equities in two years, Mr Kok shares that Kenanga Investors is bullish on Asian equities as the Asia region is deemed as one of the few regions that will bring growth moving forward. The key s...

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Opportunities abound in times of adversity.

Kenanga Investors’ Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ismitz Matthew De Alwis has written an article entitled “Opportunities abound in times of adversity” which was featured in The Star and The Star Online last weekend.In this article, Mr De Alwis advises investors to detect the positive in every negative situation or at best, re-strategise their asset class allocation inste...

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Fund Manager's Commentary - Post-US Presidential Election

Kenanga Investors' Chief Investment Officer, Ms. Lee Sook Yee provides her insights on the post-US Presidential Election.For the full commentary, please read here....

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Putting a stop to front-running.

Kenanga Investors’ Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ismitz Matthew De Alwis was featured in a recent article titled ‘Putting a stop to front-running’ by Focus Malaysia. The article explains that the practice of front-running has become increasingly difficult to trace and highlights the viewpoints of several industry players on the matter. From KIB’s perspective...

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