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CIMB-Principal ASEAN Equity Fund Back to List

Aims to provide investors with capital growth over the medium to long term through investments into ASEAN assets inclusive of equities, ETFs and derivatives.

Fund is suitable for investors who:

have a medium to long term investment horizon;
seek investment that participates in the growth of the ASEAN region;
want access to the large and the mid cap companies in the ASEAN region;
can accept that investment returns may fluctuate significantly over the short term and may even be negative; and/or
are seeking capital appreciation over the medium to long-term.

Fund Initials ASEAN

Fund Code 035

Distribution Policy	No distribution is expected to be paid, however, distribution, if any, will be incidental and will vary from period to period depending on interest rates, market conditions and the performance of the Fund.
Investment Time Horizon	Recommended 3 years or more.
Initial Investment	Minimum RM500
Additional Investment	RM200 or more at any time
Cooling off period	You have six (6) Business Days after your initial investment (i.e. the date the application is received by CIMB-Principal Asset Management) to reconsider its appropriateness for your needs. Within this period, you may withdraw your investment at the NAV per unit on the day the units were first purchased and have the Application Fee (if any) repaid. Please note that the cooling-off right is only given to an investor who is investing with CIMB-Principal Asset Management or any Approved Distributor for the first time. However, corporations/institutions, CIMB-Principal Asset Management’s staff and person(s) registered to deal in unit trust of CIMB-Principal Asset Management or any Approved Distributor are not entitled to the cooling-off right. However, investors who invest via the EPF Members Investment Scheme (where available) are subject to EPF’s terms and conditions.
Redemption/Withdrawal	RM200 or 400 units
Launch Date	12 September 2007
Approved Fund Size (units)	300 million units

As at 30 Apr 2013

Fund	YTD (%)	1 Year (%)	3 Years (%)	5 Years (%)	Since Inception (%)	NAV	Fund Size (million)
CIMB-Principal ASEAN Equity Fund	11.94	15.86	24.45	28.14	11.76	RM 0.5588	RM 21.32
The FTSE/ASEAN 40 Index	7.56	12.64	28.95	24.18	14.72

Application Fees	Up to 6.5% on each investment
Annual Fees	Management Fee: Up to 1.80% per annum of the NAV Trustee Fee: 0.08% per annum of the NAV * Subject to a minimum fee of RM18,000 per annum
Switching Fees	Since switching is treated as a withdrawal from one (1) fund and an investment into another fund, you will be charged a Switching Fee equal to the difference (if any) between the Application Fees of these two (2) funds. Switching Fee will not be charged if the fund to be switched into has a lower Application Fee. In addition, the Manager imposes a RM100 administrative fee for every switch made out of a Fund. The Manager also has the discretion to waive the Switching Fee and/or administrative fees.