Current year prospects Based on the global demand for the LED products, the Board of Directors anticipates results for the remaining quarters to remain profitable.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will carefully consider any investment in technology stocks moving forward.
Chairman Tan Sri Shamsudin Osman said there was a need to understand the type of companies and risk return profile, to ensure any investment provides good returns to depositors.
“We’re very conservative in terms of our investments today. Of course, we may have a look at some of these (technology companies) in future. But, at the back of my mind, the concern is that our contributors get a good deal from the investment.
“We’re always very careful. The EPF is the largest fund for all employees and we’re very concerned over their money,” he told reporters after the launch of the International Social Security Conference 2017 on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the deputy chief executive officer of strategy division, Tunku Alizakri Alias, said the EPF would consider investing in technology companies if they showed positive indications of having the right return profile.
“We’re also looking at those companies that will be around for the next 20 or 30 years to ensure the savings of contributors is going to be protected. The EPF, will therefore, be very careful in investing in any stocks or companies and take into consideration the risk profile,” he added.
"Meanwhile, the deputy chief executive officer of strategy division, Tunku Alizakri Alias, said the EPF would consider INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES if they showed POSITIVE indications of having the RIGHT RETURN profile."
slts over cooked. better run b4 q2 results out 04/08/2017 07:41 ------------- Hi there, please show some facts & figures before you say such stupid things. hahahahaha
There are many loser who can't earn single cent in stock market, so they feel jealousy, and always spread negative n fake statements... Forgive them, they r already pity enough! hahahaha
Actually this is a place to gether opinion, and share observation, but not to create enermies. Old people always say these word " 一人計短,兩人計長 " and "和氣生財" . Once we can calm down, temper will make us out of mind, and finally lose money. Correct?
TrippleZ Dumb dumb hold also is the only way to lose a lot. Hell a lot. 04/08/2017 21:52 ------------------------ Lose a lot because u choose a wrong company n being con but donno what happen!
A little knowledge could be dangerous, but with zero knowledge is super dangerous! hahahaha! Wish u can earn RM100 in stock market!
Stocks are hitting records and valuations are at 15-year highs, both signs of confidence. But a closer look at what is driving the rally shows that the eight-year bull market may be nearing its end.
The current earnings season makes it clear that investors are paying up for companies that are generating strong growth in earnings and revenues and ignoring or selling stocks where growth is anything less than stellar. In the past, that was a sign that the stock market rally, and the economic expansion, were in their final stages.
The quest for growth is epitomized by the stock gains in Amazon.com , Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Facebook . The S&P 500 Growth index has returned 17.1% this year. In contrast, the S&P 500 Value index, which includes stocks with lower P/E, price-to-sales and price-to-book ratios, has returned 6%. Nor is this just about investors’ infatuation with the S&P’s Gang of Four —growth’s outperformance extends to the shares of midsize and small companies.
The narrow preference for growth may be a sign that we are in the late stages of the economic cycle, points out Société Générale quantitative strategist Andrew Lapthorne.
Late in economic expansions, earnings growth slows and profit margins narrow. That puts a premium on companies that are able to keep generating growth. Indeed, in the latter stages of the both the bull market that ended in 2007 and the one that ended in 2000, growth stocks outperformed.
A similar dynamic may be in place now. At this stage in the current earnings season, it looks as if profits at companies in the S&P 500 rose 9.9% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, down from a gain of 15.3% in the first quarter. And by one measure—domestic after-tax profits as a share of gross domestic product—U.S. profit margins peaked over two years ago.
Investors have become ruthless with companies that aren’t growing fast enough. On Thursday, Whirlpool fell 7.2% and F5 Networks fell 7.4% after their growth rates failed to satisfy investors.
Even if we are in the last stage of the economic cycle, it is impossible to know how long that stage will last. Growth stocks had only a brief period of outperformance in 2007 before the financial crisis. But fast-growing companies led the market for three years during the tech bubble. The rally in growth stocks will probably end badly, but it also may only have just begun.
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All in all, final decisions is on u, not the person u don't know who they are...
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dont sell more gd news cmg