My Journey

Apr 26, 2026

Investments worth keeping

In the name of diversification, I've been exploring and investing in a number of different investment types for the past few years.  They are giving me returns that range from 3% to more than 50% in extremely rare occasions and especially if they were having campaigns and promotions.    In my opinion, the main challenge to these investment instruments is that our EPF is giving good return, which make those giving lower than that unattractive.  After these years of trials and errors, I've resorted to keeping only the following in my investment portfolio for the moment.

  • A savings account that still gives 5% profit rate p.a. since introductory promotion.  However, maximum deposit amount is kept at RM2k with no overall quota.  Good enough for emergency fund.
  • A trading account with a broker that I've been with for more than 20 years.  I don't actively trade and some of the stocks are meant for investment rather than trading.  I just leave it open and active.  At least whenever I see opportunities in the market and feel like taking the chances, I have the means to do so.  In short, it can potentially give higher returns than EPF, but loss is also a possibility too.
  • Another trading account-cum-savings because it is giving some 3+% p.a. on idle money in the account.  If no cash upfronted, it would act just like the other trading account above.
  • A crowdfunding (debt funding) account that is currently giving around 7% p.a. return.  However, with each default, the rate can significantly drop and lately, the number of defaults is growing, hence my venture into another one below.  If I choose to only fund guaranteed debts, the nett return rate would be around 5.95%, which is still competitive.
  • Another crowdfunding account that I opened due the degrading performance of the above.  At the moment, it is giving me a nett 6.3% return p.a. with defaults still standing at zero.  I also have one crowdfunding account here in Saudi that is giving up to 15% p.a. nett returns.
  • Two trust fund accounts for me to experiment with unit trusts.  There are loss risks of course, but one fund subscribed last year is currently recording 70% unrealised return.  Should liquidate this soon.  Don't be greedy.
  • A few FD accounts here in Saudi because FDs here are still giving around 4.5% to 5% return rates p.a.
Any other investments that are giving lower RoR p.a. than the above, in my opinion, are not worth keeping.  How much capital that I put in each?  That is not something that I want to share 😀

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