Page 168 - SC Annual Report 2018 (ENG)

Securities
Commission
Malaysia
ANNUAL
REPORT
2018

Chart 4
Chart 3 Assets allocation inside and outside of Malaysia
Assets Allocation as at 31 december 2018
60 70 Inside Malaysia
31 Dec 2018
47.24 51.03 31 Dec 2017 58.78 Outside Malaysia
50 60
50 44.24
Percentage (%) 40 22.67 Percentage (%) 40 28.46

30
30
20 21.37 19.89 21.15 22.66
20 16.41
10 8.90 9.98
3.67 3.55 1.58 3.47 10 5.51
1.54 2.84 0.42 2.30 0.56 1.78
0 0
Equity Fixed Money Unit Private Others Equity Fixed Money Unit Private Others
income market trust equity income market trust equity
placement placement

coLLecTIve INvesTMeNT scHeMes The unit trust funds industry recorded a total
ANd PRIvATe ReTIReMeNT scHeMes gross sales value of RM204.97 billion with unit
trust management companies being the major
In 2018, unit trust funds continued to be the largest distributors with sales amounting to RM87.57 billion
component of the Malaysian collective investment (Table 3).
schemes (CIS) industry with a total net asset value
(NAV) of RM426.18 billion recorded as at 31 In the wholesale funds segment, 43 new funds were
December 2018 (2017: RM426.98 billion). Total launched under the LOLA Framework (Table 4) to
NAV of unit trust funds as a percentage of Bursa sophisticated investors while 25 funds were
Malaysia’s market capitalisation is 25.06% as at 31 terminated and 6 funds matured in 2018, which
December 2018 (2017: 22.39%) (Table 2). As at 31 brought the total number of wholesale funds in
December 2018, there are 37 locally-incorporated operation to 307 as at 31 December 2018. Of these,
management companies approved to offer unit trust 231 funds were conventional wholesale funds while
funds. 76 were Shariah-compliant wholesale funds. The
total NAV of wholesale funds as at 31 December
In the year under review, 37 new unit trust funds 2018 was RM64.95 billion (2017: RM84.68 billion).
were launched while 22 funds were terminated
and 9 funds matured, bringing the total number A total of 4 funds were qualified as SRI fund in
of unit trust funds available to investors to 650 as 2018 pursuant to the introduction of the Guidelines
at 31 December 2018. Of these, 426 funds were on Sustainable and Responsible Investment Funds in
conventional unit trust funds while the remaining December 2017. Of these, 2 were unit trust funds
224 were Shariah-compliant unit trust funds. and 2 were wholesale funds.

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