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MoneyOwl’s portfolios constructed with Dimensional Fund Advisors’ (DFA) unit trusts are a low-cost, globally diversified and evidence-based way to grow your money. We’ll match you to one of five portfolios most suited to your risk appetite. Start your investment journey with as little as $100 (or $50 monthly) with no lock-in.
Unlike the forecasting method of conventional investment firms, Dimensional Fund Advisors apply a more objective approach to evaluating markets. Our Dimensional portfolios rely on scientific financial insights as opposed to individual guesswork and predictions, offering you a safe and reliable way to grow your money.
Dimensional investing puts your needs first, rather than chasing high performance portfolios and trends.
Better Long-Term Performance
DFA pursues drivers of higher expected returns that research has proven to be persistent, robust, pervasive and logical. Based on a foundation of market-based returns, DFA employs systematic tilts to the dimensions of value, small caps and profitability to deliver better performance over the long term.
Broad Market Exposure
DFA captures market-based returns as a starting point by holding a large diversified range of securities in their funds. Instead of trying to pick stocks, sectors or countries based on forecasts, DFA relies on the dimensions of higher expected returns to provide opportunities for outperformance.
Low Cost
While the total expense ratios for active funds can be as high as 1.67% p.a., our portfolios’ fund-level fees hover around 0.30% p.a.. DFA achieves this by minimising costs of operations and patient trading, leveraging on huge economies of scale.
Our portfolios are created using Dimensional Fund Advisors’ funds, which are backed by decades of research and cater to varying levels of risk appetites.
This portfolio is suitable for those focused on accumulating wealth over the long term (15 years or more) and are willing and able to take high risks.
Projected returns: 6.81% p.a.
Standard Deviation: 14.23%
This portfolio is suitable for those looking to accumulate wealth over the long term (12 to 14 years) and are open to taking high risks.
Projected returns: 6.32% p.a.
This portfolio is ideal for those focused on accumulating wealth over the medium term (8 to 11 years) and are willing and able to take moderate risks.
Projected returns: 5.56% p.a.
Standard Deviation: 8.4%
This portfolio is suitable for those who want to accumulate wealth over the medium term (6 to 7 years) and are willing and able to take moderate risks.
Projected returns: 4.58% p.a.
Standard Deviation: 5.37%
This portfolio is suitable for those focused on capital preservation over the short-medium term (4 to 5 years) and are willing and able to take some risk.
Projected returns: 3.10% p.a.
Standard Deviation: 2.48%
Disclaimer
Projected returns are based on the average historical 20-year rolling period returns of Dimensional Global Core Equity Index, Dimensional Emerging Markets Adjusted Large Cap Index & FTSE World Government Bond Index 1- 5 Years (hedged to SGD) from 1994 to 2022 and Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index (hedged to SGD) from 2000 to 2022. Please note that past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Projected returns are calculated after deducting fund level fees, which range between 0.25% and 0.27% p.a., and net of advisory fees of 0.6% p.a.
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.
The total returns are based on time-weighted return approach, which is calculated by multiplying the daily returns of your portfolio and linking them together to show how the returns are compounded over time. It shows you how much $1 of your investment would have grown throughout your investment period, without considering the size and timing of interim cash inflows or outflows. This is in line with how fund managers measure the performance of their funds.
Mathematically, if the period 1 return on your investment is represented by r1, and period 2 is represented by r2 and so on, the Time-Weighted Return is determined by the formula below: Total Returns = [(1+r1) (1+r2) (1+r3) (1+r4) .... (1+rn)] – 1
Example:
Suppose Peter invests $10,000 into a portfolio on 1 Jan. On 1 July, his portfolio is valued at $11,500 and at this point he adds another $1,000 bringing his portfolio value to $12,500 ($11,500 + $1,000). By the end of the year, the portfolio has decreased in value to $12,000.
Period Return (1 Jan to 30 Jun) = ($11,500 - $10,000)/$10,000 = 15%
Period Return (1 Jul to 31 Dec) = ($12,000 - $12,500)/$12,500 = -4%
Therefore, the Time-Weighted Return during this entire period (1 Jan to 31 Dec) is 10.4%, which is computed by geometrically linking the returns of the two periods, i.e. [(1+0.15) (1-0.04)] - 1 = 10.4%
You can login to your MoneyOwl Investment Account to submit a top-up request:
For Dimensional/ WiseIncome/WiseSaver Portfolios, the minimum withdrawal amount is $50.
For CPF Portfolios, the minimum withdrawal amount is $200.
Your sell request will be processed at 3pm on the current business day if we received your sell request before 3 pm. If your sell request is received after 3pm, the request will be processed at 3 pm the next business day.
iFAST Financial Pte Ltd provides custodial and transfer agent services to MoneyOwl. Please refer to https://eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid for full details of their licence.
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