16 Oct 2020

Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad confirms that one of its non-client facing employees, based at Kenanga Tower on Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee has been on medical leave since 14 October 2020, and is currently being treated at a government hospital. ...

07 Oct 2020

Kenanga Investors was recently featured in 4E Journal's article entitled "Kenanga Investors Consistently Outperforms". Spurred by its philosophy of Consistent Top Performance, the firm mandates a transformation at all levels. This encompasses streamlining its entire suite of offerings to ensure investors’ needs are met, launching new alternative strategies and products, and sourcing for new inv...

06 Oct 2020

Ignites Asia's article on ETFs explores the reasons why ETFs are lacking distributors who are willing to market and promote exchange traded funds. Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors, said many people assumed that since ETFs were passively managed the returns would be low, but that was not the case. Kenanga Investors partnered with Taiwan�...

30 Sep 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for a myriad of people not only in Malaysia but around the world. In this article, Smart Investor talks to Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors, for his thoughts on this event which has caught many completely by surprise. De Alwis agrees that it will take time, some wise investment decisions...

21 Sep 2020

Asia Asset Management recently published an article discussing the impact of climate change in our world. Climate change is one of five man-made mega trends that will shape the world this century, and potentially jeopardise efforts to put the world on a more sustainable footing without urgent policy action, United Nations’ chief economists warn. According to Executive Director and Chief Executi...

04 Sep 2020

A recent article published by The Edge, titled ‘Sustaining the Performance of Shariah Funds’ features Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors. The article discusses the recent performance of shariah funds which outperformed its conventional peers during the recent market downturn. De Alwis notes that shariah funds outperformed due to their ...

28 Aug 2020

A recent article published by The Edge, titled Investing in Local Tech, features views of Kenanga Investors’ Executive Director/ CEO Ismitz Matthew De Alwis and other industry experts, the article explores the increased interest in the tech sector following the global rally in tech stocks. Investors are betting on the accelerated digitalisation trend triggered by the pandemic, which has restri...

30 Jul 2020

Smart Investor’s latest issue features Kenanga Investors’ Chief Investment Officer, Lee Sook Yee. The article, entitled “Kenanga Funds Get Boost from Tech & Glove Sector” discusses Kenanga Investors' top five performing funds, namely Kenanga Growth Opportunities, Kenanga EquityEXTRA, Kenanga TacticalEXTRA, Kenanga Shariah Growth Opportunities, and Kenanga Premier Fund. Across the top ...

29 Jul 2020

The Executive Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Kenanga Investors, Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, published an article entitled 'Preserving the Retirement Dream Amid Waves of Turmoil' in The Star recently. The article was published in conjunction with The Star's Planning Your Retirement Special issue, which aims to serve as a retirement planning guide to investors of all ages. In this article, De Al...

13 Jul 2020

Join Kenanga Islamic Investors' CEO, Zulkifli Ishak at 'The Easy Way to Invest and Trade in Stock Market" webinar if you would like to know more about OneETF by Kenanga. While you're learning about the ins and outs of the stock market, try your hand at the quizzes to win attractive prizes! This webinar is organised by Bursa Malaysia. Reserve your spot as this webinar is on a first-come-first-ser...

06 Jul 2020

We are pleased to announce that Kenanga Investors won three awards at the FSMOne Recommended Unit Trusts Awards 2020/2021 recently. Our flagship funds, Kenanga Growth Fund and Kenanga Syariah Growth Fund were awarded under the Core Equity – Malaysia and Core Equity – Malaysia (Islamic) categories respectively. Meanwhile, the Kenanga Balanced Fund, which aims to provide a portfolio of investme...

01 Jul 2020

In this article, fund managers identify key sectors investors can invest in and the laggards to avoid. According to Kenanga Investors' Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, investors will have a better gauge of the depth of recession and damage to corporate earnings after the release of economic data and corporate results for first quarter. He notes that there a...