RHBInvest Releases Asia’s First Stock Screener based on Fundamental and Technical Analysis, Chart-Pattern Recognition and Value Investing Principles

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

RHBInvest, the online share trading portal of RHB Investment Bank Berhad breaks new grounds by being the first brokerage in Asia to provide three of Recognia’s award-winning investment research products that allow investors to easily screen for trading trends among thousands of securities to fully take advantage of trading opportunities. Recognia’s industry-leading investment research products - Technical Insight, Value Analyzer and Strategy Builder is now available to RHB’s retail online brokerage clients as RHBScreener via RHBInvest.com.

RHBInvest’s account holders will be able to make more informed trading decisions with auto-interpretation of chart patterns to plan investments at Bursa Malaysia and global markets. RHBScreener will also provide powerful tools to build investing strategies and monitor investment opportunities based on both fundamental and technical analysis, offering daily bullish or bearish trading opportunities, email alerting, and stocks analysis to guide investors towards tailored trading strategies. RHB’s clients will also have access to web-based chart-pattern recognition and technical events detection which are also currently utilised by industry leading brokerages like Fidelity, Charles Schwab, TD Waterhouse and OptionsXpress.

Mr. Mike Chan, Officer-In-Charge of RHB Investment Bank said, “We are pleased to offer RHBScreener to enhance our client’s trading potential in making well-informed investment decisions at Bursa Malaysia and the global markets. In this initiative, we are happy to have a partner in Recognia and we believe that Recognia’s award-winning investment research product augurs well with RHB Investment Bank’s commitment to continuously upgrade our offerings on RHBInvest.”

Mr. Rick Escher, President and CEO, Recognia said, “We are pleased to work with RHB to deliver our award-winning research to RHB account-holders. Our research enables investors to find unique trading opportunities and become more confident in their trading abilities, and we are pleased to offer this together.”
In line with RHBInvest’s catchphrase “Expect More From Your Brokerage, RHBInvest’s clients can use the new RHBScreener for free until 30 June 2012, after which will also be redeemable via RHBInvest’s newly launched HOTTIES Reward Programme. For complete information on RHBScreener, please call 03-92051300 or visit www.rhbinvest.com.

About the RHB Banking Group
The RHB Banking Group is one of Malaysia’s fully integrated financial services group. The Group’s core businesses are streamlined into seven Strategic Business Groups (SBGs): Retail Banking, Business Banking, Group Transaction Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, Islamic Banking, Global Financial Banking and Group Treasury. These businesses are offered through its main subsidiaries - RHB Bank Berhad, RHB Investment Bank Berhad, RHB Insurance Berhad and RHB Islamic Bank Berhad, while its asset management and unit trust businesses are held under RHB Investment Management Berhad. The Group has its presence in Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. RHB Investment Bank is a top investment bank in Malaysia with a market leading position in M&A and capital markets segment.

About Recognia
Recognia provides intuitive, easy-to-use investment research products for both institutional traders and self-directed investors. With more than 25 million provisioned accounts worldwide, Recognia products and services service the largest and most successful institutions, stock exchanges and online brokerage firms, including Bloomberg, NYSE Euronext, Saxobank, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, TD Waterhouse, Lightspeed Trading, and many more.

Issued on behalf of RHB Investment Bank by the Corporate Communications Division, RHB Capital Berhad. For more information, please call Zuraida Mohamad at 03-9280 2880 (Zuraida@rhb.com.my) or Melati Kesuma Kamaruddin at 03-9280 2445 (Melati@rhb.com.my)