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"KWAP achieved net ROI and TWRR of 5.75% and 5.30% respectively in 2011"
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Malaysian Government Securities (MGS)
 
Overview
 
The Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) portfolios are designed to maximise yields while allowing for the opportunity of capital appreciation via deployment of the appropriate duration, issues (i.e on the run or off-the run papers), and yield curve. We are very active in the both the local primary and secondary markets. The management of portfolio positions is via duration management and the coupon return is via the optimization of the portfolio yield
 
Core Objective
 
Investment of KWAP funds in fixed income securities for purpose of investment and short term positioning strategy.

Generation of both short and long term competitive returns from fixed income securities in accordance to the Investment Policy and Guidelines of KWAP.
 
Types of Investment Instrument
 
The various types of Malaysian Government Investment Securities invested by KWAP are as follows:
 
  • Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) - interest bearing long-term bonds issued by the Government of Malaysia (GOM) with an original maturity of more than one year.
  • Malaysian Treasury Bills (MTB) - short-term securities issued by the Government of Malaysia with original maturity of less than one year.
  • Government Investment Issues (GII) and Malaysian Islamic Treasury Bills (MITB) - long-term and short-term non-interest bearing securities issued by the Government of Malaysia based on Islamic principles.
 
Portfolio Selection Process
 
 
 
Performance
 
The local bond market had a bullish year amidst a series downgrade in sovereign ratings in Europe, Japan and U.S, upheavals of the Arab Springs, and sluggishness in the global equity market. Foreign investors were seen buying more regional bonds including Malaysia Government Securities (MGS) in anticipation that regional economic growth would remain stable and to benefit from potential investment gain. Investors had larger duration risk appetite, whereby buying interest on MGS was concentrated on mid-to-longer tenure benchmarks. Overall, the yield curve flattened following the issuance of larger mid-to-longer tenure issuance for the years and the normalization of interest rate in May 2011.

Against this backdrop, KWAP’s total investment in Government Securities (MGS, GII and Quasi government bonds) surged to RM18.0 billion as compared to RM15.6 billion as reported in 2010. The gross investment income continued to grow by 7.2% to RM903.9 million as compared to last year’s figure at RM843.1 million despite that the portfolio Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) was reduced from 29% to 24% in year 2011. The portfolio also registered ROI of 5.37%, marginally lower compared to 5.41% reported in 2010, contributed by both coupon and trading income whereby coupon contributed 85% of the income. ROI outperformed the benchmark, Quantshop MGS (All) yield of 3.46% by 191 bps. Moving forward, for the period January to March 2012, gross realized income generated climbed to RM299.1 million attributed to active trading activities while total holdings in the MGS portfolio surged to RM20.41 billion.