Malaysian gold plans flourish in hunt for yield: Southeast Asia

KUALA LUMPUR: Dadhyanna Tan Mian Lee ditched a 10- year career in telecommunications in 2009 to become a consultant with Genneva Malaysia Sdn., selling gold to customers with a plan that she says yielded as much as 24 percent a year.

"My mom would say, she got 3 percent per annum placing her money into a fixed-deposit facility with a bank," said Tan, 38. Genneva also won her father as a customer with its offering of discretionary monthly "gifts" to purchasers of its product.