Finance

1) Strategic investment and financing decisions: Raise the finance to fund growth and assist in the appraisal of key capital projects. 2) Dealing with the capital markets: As the intermediary, must develop good links with the company’s bankers  and other major financiers, and be aware of the appropriate sources of finance for corporate requirements. 3) Managing exposure to risk:  Ensure that exposure to adverse movements in interest and exchange rates is adequately managed. Various techniques for hedging (a term for reducing exposure to risk) are available. 4) Forecasting, coordination and control:  Assist in and, where appropriate, coordinate and control activities that have a significant impact on cash flow.

When investors start selling off their stocks it could only mean that they’re panicking for a reason that could affect them unfavourably, especially the foreign investors who were and still are the net sellers until this day, which is the 6th of July. It has already been more than a month have since the publishing of that article and yet the foreign investors are still selling off for various and logical reasons, which we will go through soon enough, As most of us may know, there was the election for the next prime minister, which investors were already anxious about, adding to that, the opposition won, leaving investors both local and foreign in an uncertain situation, therefore, and the massive sell off. This happens everywhere around the world where investors who invest in that nation are always on the edge whenever an election of a huge scale takes place. Investors would panic if they feel like things are going to be uncertain, unpredictable, and worrisome. So, as they panic, most...

  NYLEX 4944 Nylex (Malaysia) Berhad is a company engaged in chemicals, plastics, and polymers. This company have over 13 Subsidiaries Company which is operating in difference countries mainly in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. The company product is export to Europe, Middle East Countries, Australia, New Zealand and over 15 countries in Asia.   We decided to invest in this counter is because after our analysis we found that the company profit margin can improve due to the cheaper oil price. Since 2014, the oil price had drop from USD 110 per barrel until USD 49 per barrel (updated on 7/6/17). Hence we believe that the company profit will having a better performance with reduce of material cost.   We decided enter to the market on 10/3/17 because the MACD indicator had formed a bullish crossover and the trend of RSI indicator is also on the uptrend. So we buy in at 0.75 with 140 unit. The nearest support point is RM0.68, so once the last done price is b...

  LIONIND 4235 Lion Industries Corporation Berhad is a company mainly operate in steel manufacture and marketing. We monitor this company is because after we study the company we found that it is possible for this company to get a huge rebound on the financial performance and share price.   First and foremost, the steel prices have normalized following China’s decision to reduce its output and clamp down on illegal mills, coupled with Malaysia’s safeguard measures, which Malaysia government had adopted new tax on the imported steel. This policy will implement for 3 years. Hence it is a very good news for the local steel industry. We can look back from the history of the company the company is well manage and having a very huge market share on year 2011 but after the dumping imported steel from china enter to the Malaysia market since 2012 the company face a very hard time due to the high labour cost of Malaysia. The company cannot compete with the manufacturer from china...

Maybank LTD MAYBANK C24 11552   Malayan Banking Berhad (MAYBANK) is known as one of the blue chip counter in KLCI. This company engaged in all aspect of commercial banking service and related financial services. For example they provide loan and finance product to their customers.   We choose Maybank to monitor because it is one of the leader in the finance industry. Hence it will lead the whole finance industry index and we found a finance tool which can leverage our profit with a little capital. In 23/1/17, we had decided to buy in 800 unit of Maybank C24 on RM0.125 because of  the premium of the counter is not very high and its maturity date is 30/6/17 with a very high gearing which can help us to maximize our profit. So, we decided to start collect bellow the price RM0.13   we believe that the coming quarter report will bring out a flying color result due to the better performance of GDP growth in last quarter of 2016 and the dividend will be announce based on t...

What is a bond? Bonds relate to debt instruments which provide fixed interest rate or coupon rate upon maturity. Bonds differ from other types of debt securities such as- commercial papers, T-bills and other money market instruments. Therefore, in a simple term we can say the issuer is a borrower and the buyer is a lender who gets the interest payment. What are the types of Bonds? Among various types of bonds the three common types are: Government bonds or T-bonds (Treasury bonds): The US Treasury issues this type of bonds to finance their expenditure. The beauty of treasury bonds are it does not have any default risk due to the fact that treasury has the authority to print money for repayment of the lender. There is a pitfall which is the interest rate is very low, sometimes equivalent or lesser than the risk free investment. Also, after taking into consideration of inflation the return may not be attractive anymore. Municipal bonds: This type of bonds are issued by local or s...