Riding the waves in markets abroad

DON’T put all your eggs in one basket – is probably one of the most-used idiomatic expressions in the context of investing. Essentially, it means don’t risk everything all at once or focus all resources on one thing.

In recent years and especially since the liberalisation of the fund management industry four years ago, Malaysian retail investors have become more interested to ride the waves in markets abroad to tap bigger gains and to reduce the investment risk of solely focusing on the domestic market.