A year of triple black swan events is how Gan Eng Peng, senior director at Affin Hwang Asset Management Bhd, depicts 2020. They were the Covid-19 pandemic, the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government and crude oil prices falling into negative territory — the first time in history.

Resilience in a year of black swan events

An unwavering bottom-up, fundamentals-driven and structured team-based approach helped UOB Asset Management (M) Bhd win three awards at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021. The awards are the Best Mixed Asset MYR Conservative (won by United Income Plus Fund) and Best Equity Asean (Malaysia) (wo...

UOB Asset Management takes home three awards

At the start of 2020, when global markets were not looking too good, the thinking then among many fund managers was that it would be tough to bring in returns that matched those of previous years.

Indeed, when the global markets crashed in March as the Covid-19 pandemic heightened and w...

Winners List

Areca Capital Sdn Bhd bagged four awards at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021. This was the fourth time in a row that the fund house was taking home the awards for Best Equity Malaysia in the three-, five- and 10-year categories. It also achieved a first by clinching the award for Best Equity...

Areca continues winning streak

Public Mutual Bhd dominated the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021, bagging three group and 31 individual awards — the greatest number of awards won by a fund management company — retaining its winning streak for three years running.

The fund house clinched the Best Equity Malaysia, Best...

Public Mutual biggest winner with 34 awards

“Greater prudence from fund managers globally, combined with increased regulatory oversight in emerging markets, will help mitigate the...

A year of unprecedented challenges and resilience

KAF Investment Funds Bhd (KAF) emerged as a winner at this year’s Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards with three winning funds.

KAF Bond won the Best Bond MYR (Malaysia) award in the 10-year category, while KAF Jade won the award for the Best Equity Asia Pacific (Malaysia) in the three-year ca...

KAF Investment Funds bags three awards

The awards methodology and guidelines for the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards are provided below:

General methodology

Criteria (cumulative)


	    Funds registered for sale in the respective country as at the end o...

Awards methodology

Pheim Asset Management Sdn Bhd took home six awards at this year’s Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards. For the sixth consecutive year, Dana Makmur Pheim swept the award for Best Mixed Asset MYR Balanced (Islamic) in the 10-year category. The fund also took home the award for Best Mixed Asset MYR Balanc...

Pheim Asset Management garners six awards 

RHB Asset Management Sdn Bhd’s RHB Thematic Growth Fund won the award for Best Mixed Asset MYR Flexible (Provident) in the three-year category at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021. It was the first Refinitiv Lipper award for the fund, which invests in securities of Malaysian companies that be...

RHB’s fund wins first Refinitiv Lipper award

Principal Asset Management Bhd ­(formerly known as CIMB-Principal Asset Management Bhd) took home an individual fund award at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021.

The fund management firm rode through an unprecedented year of Covid-19-enforced economic lockdowns to bag an award in the...

Principal Asset Management wins one award

Affin Hwang Asset Management Bhd (AHAM) won four awards at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021. For the fourth year running, its Affin Hwang Select Opportunity Fund won the award for Best Equity Malaysia Diversified (Provident) in the 10-year category. 

Other funds in the limelig...

Affin Hwang bags four awards 

AmanahRaya Investment Management Sdn Bhd (ARIM) took home four fund awards at this year’s Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards. AmanahRaya Unit Trust snagged the awards for Best Bond (MYR) in the three- and five-year categories while AmanahRaya Syariah Trust won the awards for Best Bond MYR (Islamic) in ...

AmanahRaya Investment Management wins four awards

Maybank Asset Management Sdn Bhd once again landed a winning spot at the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021, with two fund awards this year.

Maybank Malaysia Income (MMI) took home the award for Best Bond MYR (Provident) in the 10-year category, with a return of 116.77% over the period. ...

Two awards for Maybank Asset Management

Apex Research says Ramssol is kicking off the year with a blast

MORNING CALL: 25/4/24

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): RHB Retail Research said NationGate Holdings Bhd is observing a technical breakout after climbing above the RM1.70 immediate resistance on surging trading volume.

In a trading stocks note on Thursday, the research house said that as such, the bullish momentum ma...

NationGate is observing a technical breakout, says RHB Retail Research 

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): RHB Retail Research said Naim Holdings Bhd is likely to resume its uptrend after the recent consolidation above the 97.5 sen breakout level.

In a trading stocks note on Thursday, the research house said that coupled with strong trading volume, it expects the sto...

Naim Holdings likely to resume its uptrend, says RHB Retail Research 

(April 25): Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao is facing up to three years in prison, if efforts by US prosecutors to secure his sentencing prove successful. More than 160 friends, colleagues and investors are determined for the crypto executive to escape incarceration entirely.

Totaling...

Friends, family, royalty seek mercy for crypto’s richest man

(April 25): A disappointing earnings report from Meta Platforms Inc. has technology investors on edge with results from some of the stock market’s biggest and most important companies due in the coming days.

Shares of Facebook’s parent were down as much as 19% in after-hours trading and...

Meta’s miss sparks fear in tech world with big earnings looming

(April 25): Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have reaffirmed a global commitment against deploying nuclear weapons in space, rebuffing US efforts to shine a spotlight on Moscow’s reported plans to do so.

The resolution underscored that countries are ...

Russia blocks US bid to reaffirm nuclear-arms ban in space

NEW YORK (April 25): Benchmark S&P 500 closed higher in choppy trading on Wednesday, as investors weighed an uptick in Treasury yields amid positive corporate results particularly from technology giants.

An auction of a record $70 billion worth of five-year U.S. Treasury notes on We...

S&P 500 ends higher as markets weigh rising yields, upbeat corporate results

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (April 25): Bournemouth snapped a three-game winless run in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory at former manager Gary O'Neil's Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday courtesy of a first-half strike from Antoine Semenyo.

The win moved Bournemouth up to 10th place ...

Bournemouth back to winning ways with 1-0 victory over Wolves

LONDON (April 25): Crystal Palace made absolutely sure of Premier League safety with an impressive 2-0 home defeat of Newcastle United on Wednesday with both goals scored by Jean-Philippe Mateta.

It was a well-deserved win for the hosts while Newcastle's European hopes were dealt a blow...

Mateta double fires Palace to win over Newcastle

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (April 25): Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of comparative calm, and Israel said it was moving forward with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah in the south.

After an abrupt Is...

Israel says Rafah assault looms; massive Gaza airstrikes end weeks of relative calm

The daughter of a Chinese nickel billionaire purchased a multimillion-dollar mansion in Singapore, adding to the list of wealthy people seizing buying opportunities during the market lull.

Xiang Yangyang, the daughter of Xiang Guangda, who owns Tsingshan Holding Group Co, the world’s largest nickel and stainless steelmaker, agreed to buy the 2,612 sq m (28,111 sq ft) house in the country’s Bin Tong Park enclave, according to a property record seen by Bloomberg News.

Chinese metal tycoon’s heir buys US$62m Singapore mansion

Here is a brief recap of some business news and corporate announcements that made the headlines on Wednesday.

KLCCP, Suria Capital, Capital A, Calsberg, Hibiscus Petroleum, Chin Hin, OCR, Fajarbaru, I-Bhd, Farm Price, United Plantations, AME REIT, Axis REIT, MyEG

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Construction outfit Fajarbaru Builder Group Bhd has bagged a RM252.26 million contract from WCT Holdings Bhd to undertake Phase 1 of a two-phase development of two blocks of serviced apartments in Johor Bahru.

Fajarbaru Builder bags RM252m construction job in Johor Bahru from WCT

Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd said it has completed the drilling of the Bunga Aster-1 exploration well and is expecting its first oil production to begin in May.

Hibiscus Petroleum completes drilling at Bunga Aster-1 well, first oil production set for next month

(April 25): A disappointing earnings report from Meta Platforms Inc. has technology investors on edge with results from some of the stock market’s biggest and most important companies due in the coming days.

Shares of Facebook’s parent were down as much as 19% in after-hours trading and...

Eden Inc Bhd’s major shareholder Tan Sri Abd Rahim Mohamad is proposing to settle a RM45.65 million debt his company owes Eden by transferring the ownership of a 2.4 million sq ft (about 55 acres) leasehold land to the listed entity.

Eden's major shareholder proposes land transfer to settle RM45.65m debt owed to company

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Suria Capital Holdings Bhd’s wholly owned Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd has roped in DP World, an Emirati multinational logistics company based in Dubai, to manage Sapangar Bay Container Port (SBCP), in a bid to cement the port’s position as a regional trade hub for the East Asean growth area spanning Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (BIMP-EAGA).

Suria Capital’s Sabah Ports ropes in Dubai’s DP World to manage Sapangar Bay Container Port

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The yen fell on Wednesday to its weakest levels against the dollar since 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop up their currency.

Japan's yen hits 155 per dollar, weakest since 1990

The High Court here on Wednesday dismissed a judicial review application by Musang King durian planters around Raub to challenge the Pahang government's decision to issue eviction notices against them.

High Court bins Musang King farmers’ bid to challenge land eviction notice in Pahang

The prosecution succeeded in its appeal at the Federal Court on Wednesday to forfeit RM1,112,700 from 79 investors involved in an illegal deposit-taking scheme.

Apex court allows forfeiture of RM1.11m belonging to investors of illegal deposit-taking scheme

US President Joe Biden’s recent polling bump in key battleground states has mostly evaporated, as a deep current of pessimism about the trajectory of the US economy hurts his standing with voters.

Biden trails Trump in six of seven key states, poll shows

TikTok's chief executive said on Wednesday that the company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban the popular short video app used by 170 million Americans.

TikTok CEO expects to defeat US restrictions: 'We aren't going anywhere'

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Sapura Industrial Bhd plans to collaborate with Mili Tech Sdn Bhd on feasibility studies for electrified vehicle (EV) products and potentially establish a joint venture (JV) business in Malaysia.

Sapura Industrial inks MOU with Mili Tech for feasibility studies on EVs

CapitaLand Malaysia Trust (CLMT) reported a 63% in its first quarter net property income to RM63.98 million from RM39.24 million a year ago, driven by full quarter revenue contribution from Queensbay Mall, higher occupancies and positive rental reversions.

CLMT’s 1Q net property income jumps 63% to RM64m, DPU up 37%

NEW YORK (April 25): Benchmark S&amp;P 500 closed higher in choppy trading on Wednesday, as investors weighed an uptick in Treasury yields amid positive corporate results particularly from technology giants.

An auction of a record $70 billion worth of five-year U.S. Treasury notes on We...

The strategic collaboration between Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd (SPSB) and DP World, a global port terminal operator, will be a boon to Sabah’s aspiration to promote the Sepangar Bay Container Port (SBCP) as a key transshipment hub in the region, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.

Hajiji: Tie-up between Sabah Ports, DP World to boost state’s aim to become transshipment hub

(April 25): Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao is facing up to three years in prison, if efforts by US prosecutors to secure his sentencing prove successful. More than 160 friends, colleagues and investors are determined for the crypto executive to escape incarceration entirely.

Totaling...

The Nasdaq outpaced Wall Street peers on Wednesday, with Tesla leading gains among megacap stocks after its quarterly results, while upbeat earnings reports across other sectors also offered support.

Nasdaq outshines Wall Street peers on tech boost, earnings glee 

KOTA KINABALU (April 24): The Sabah government has a deficit of almost RM1 billion to carry out road repairs and maintenance works in the state, the state assembly sitting was told on Wednesday.

Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards 2021

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