{"id":15559,"date":"2019-03-22T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15559"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:07:57","slug":"malaysias-first-bond-and-equity-etfs-declare-income-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15559","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s First Bond And Equity ETFs  Declare Income Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Malaysia\u2019s first Exchange-Traded Funds<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0(\u201cETFs\u201d), namely ABF Bond Index Fund (\u201cABF Malaysia\u201d) and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI etf (\u201cFBM KLCI etf\u201d) have declared an income distribution of 4.65 sen and 2.80 sen per unit respectively for its financial year ended 31 December 2018. AmInvest manages both ETFs.<br><br>ABF Malaysia\u2019s income distribution of 4.65 sen per unit in December 2018 represents an income distribution yield (the rate of the return of the ETF based on income distribution) of 4.06%, which was computed based on the ETF\u2019s net asset value of RM1.1457 per unit as at 31 December 2018.<sup>2\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>ABF Malaysia is the only bond ETF in the market and its portfolio consists of mainly Malaysian government bonds.\u00a0 It tracks the performance of Markit iBoxx\u00aeABF Malaysia Bond Index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34105\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34105<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0Malaysia\u2019s first Exchange-Traded Funds1\u00a0(\u201cETFs\u201d), namely ABF Bond Index Fund (\u201cABF Malaysia\u201d) and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI etf (\u201cFBM KLCI etf\u201d) have declared an income distribution of 4.65 sen and 2.80 sen per unit respectively for its financial year ended 31 December 2018. AmInvest manages both ETFs. ABF Malaysia\u2019s income distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}