Tiger Brokers have been aggressively reaching out to retail investors since launching into Singapore, providing a competitive edge to its investors across the many products and services in their platforms.

If you have missed my previous two articles on some of the features, you may refer to them here and here.

Recently, they have announced the launch of their new product, Fund Mall - a one-stop destination for investing in global mutual funds that allow investors to access more than 100 renowned funds such as money market funds, bond funds, and equity funds.

Account users of Tiger Brokers can do so at the convenience of single account access - which means as long as you have an existing account with Tiger Brokers, you are automatically enrolled which allows you to purchase these globally available mutual funds at your own choice. 

The money that the investors use to subscribe to these mutual funds is strictly supervised by the financial regulators of the country where the fund is registered (e.g US Securities and Commission (SEC) or Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)) to ensure the safety of investors' assets.

In order to do this, investors are required to complete a simple Investment Risk Profiling Questionnaire to assess the suitability of the funds.

Investors who wished to purchase the mutual funds are required to transfer their funds from the Tiger Brokerage Prime account to Tiger Broker's Fund Mall account, which is essentially like a sub-account category to the main account.

For instance, you can see that under "My Accounts", I have two categories of funds which is Tiger Account and Fund Mall Account.

The usual buying and selling of stocks will be debited and credited via the Tiger Prime Account but for Fund Mall Account, I have to separately transfer (in my case USD100) them from my Prime Account to the Fund Mall Account.

Type of Funds Available:

There are 3 broad categories of funds that investors can choose from:

i.) Money Market Fund - Investment of monetary instruments denominated in U.S. Dollars, including but not limited to fixed-term deposit, cash equivalent, and short-term bonds.

ii.) Bond Fund - Investment of bonds, including but not limited to investment-grade bonds, emerging market bonds, high-yield bonds, or a combination of the above.

iii.) Equity Fund - Investment of stocks, including but not limited to large-cap stocks, small/middle-cap stocks, technology stocks, emerging market equity, and other stocks ETFs in the U.S. and Asia.

The appended table below shows each of the characteristics of each type of fund and the level of both risks and returns involved.