Country-Specific Unit Trusts

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Country-Specific Unit Trusts are unit trusts that invest in a specific country or region. These unit trusts usually invest in countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Korea and so on. Regions would include Asia Pacific Excluding Japan, Greater China Region, North America and so on. The investment tools they invest in could be bonds or stocks.

When investing, investors should do some due diligence of and see what is the prospect of the country or the region the unit trusts is investing in. For example, GDP growth, interest rate, consumer confidence and so on. Since most of them are more focus on a country or region, they are definitely more volatile compare to unit trust that invest in a larger region. This is because, the larger the region it invests in, the more diversification there is, resulting in lower volatility relative to smaller region of investment.

Indicators of Country-Specific Unit Trusts

Please see Indicators for Country-Specific Unit Trusts