28 Oct 2021

Kenanga Investors has announced the launch of the Kenanga Sustainability Series: Frontier Fund (“the Fund”). The Fund aims to invest primarily in equity securities of global cutting-edge and innovative companies with long-term sustainable growth potential, are on the cusps of initial public offerings. Kenanga Investors foresees significant investment possibilities in these growth ventures, wh...

06 Oct 2021

Kenanga Investors Berhad (KIB) and Kenanga Islamic Investors Berhad (KIIB) have been affirmed investment manager ratings (IMR) of IMR-2 by the Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC) for the 5th consecutive year since first rated in 2017. The IMR rating reflects KIB’s well-established investment processes and sound risk management practices. During 1H2021, KIB’s average one-year, three-yea...

02 Aug 2021

Kenanga Investors was recently featured in The Star's retirement planning special. The featured article entitled Getting through the tough times addresses financial planning throughout the pandemic. Kenanga Investor's Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer provided strategies and useful advice in navigating the challenging year brought on by the pandemic. He highl...

22 Jul 2021

Kenanga Investors Berhad (“Kenanga Investors”) in collaboration with The Star has release an article, titled “Invest in You”. The article briefly discusses the importance of financial planning to provide a solid foundation to one’s financial security and portfolio. Its significance is further increased as recent lockdowns and spikes in infectious cases have begun to increase, and thus h...

29 Jun 2021

Kenanga Investors Berhad (“Kenanga Investors”) has relaunched two of its unit trust funds, the Kenanga Global Growth Fund (“KGGF”, formerly Kenanga Resource Equity Fund) and Kenanga Global Islamic Fund (“KGIF”, formerly Kenanga Islamic Fund). KGGF aims to achieve capital growth by investing primarily in global equities and equity-related securities with a secondary focus on fixed inco...

18 Jun 2021

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors, Ismitz Matthew De Alwis recently discussed the role of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) in company valuation and the increased awareness from millennials on sustainable investing at the Star Wealth Summit 2021, a two-day digital event organized by The Star Media Group. Lee Sook Yee, Kenanga Investors’ Chief In...

25 May 2021

In this article by The Edge entitled ‘Malaysia’s GDP forecasted at lower than 6% by fund managers’, The Edge sat down with top fund managers in Malaysia, including Kenanga Investors’ Head of Equity, Christopher Kok to discuss the impact of the resurgence of Covid-19 cases on Malaysia’s GDP. They also further discussed foreign and other Asian countries’ economic performance and their a...

24 May 2021

The Kenanga SyariahEXTRA Fund was awarded Best Mixed Asset MYR Balanced for 3 Years and 5 Years at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021 – Global Islamic, bringing the total number of awards the fund has won this year to six. Its outperformance is attributed to the strategy employed for the Fund, which is in line with an active investment strategy for different market conditions to enhance risk...

17 May 2021

Smart Investor sat down with Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors, Ismitz Matthew De Alwis to discuss the firm’s continuing shift in focus towards socially responsible investing in an article entitled Putting Sustainability at the Forefront of Investing. De Alwis elaborates on the growing demand for ESG factors in investment with the benefits it can provide to inv...

19 Apr 2021

At the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021, Kenanga Investors won overall best group in the Malaysia Islamic Funds Group Awards (Equity) and Malaysia Provident Funds Group Awards (Mixed Assets) categories. The Kenanga SyariahEXTRA Fund swept a total of four awards in two categories; Malaysia Islamic Funds under Mixed Asset MYR Balanced for 3 Years and 5 Years and Malaysia Provident Funds under Mixe...

13 Apr 2021

Kenanga Investors Berhad has launched the Kenanga Waqf Al-Ihsan Fund (“Fund”) together with Yayasan Waqaf Malaysia as the Fund’s appointed recipient and administrator. The fund is an open-ended investment vehicle investing in a diversified portfolio of Shariah-compliant investment instruments. In accordance with waqf principles, half of the fund’s returns will be contributed towards secto...

09 Apr 2021

Kenanga investors Berhad (“Kenanga Investors”) has declared a final income distribution of RM256.0 million for 21 retail funds till March 2021 adding to the earlier RM275.7 million that has been distributed and also income repatriation during the course of 2020, making it a record-breaking total distribution amount of RM531.7 million for its clients for financial year 2020. Ismitz Matthew De ...