Tea with Invest Apprentice: 7 Reasons Why We Need Unit Trusts.

By A Singaporean Stockmarket Investor (ASSI) • April 1, 2014

Another guest blog by Invest Apprentice and this should be read as a companion blog to the earlier guest blog. Please see related post number 1 at the end of this blog: 7 Reasons Why We Need Unit Trusts. 1) When we only have a small capital and it's too expensive to buy individual stocks or bonds in a certain market we want exposure to.

Eg. A global equity fund is a quick way to gain exposure and diversification to most of the mega cap companies in the global stock market.

2) When we want to diversify our risks and ETF is not a ready option. Our SGX exchange currently does not offer the range of ETFs compared to foreign exchanges such as the US, where you could literally buy an ETF for any sector, style, country, asset class etc. you can think of. They even ...

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