Following Kaesang, Raffi Ahmad Also Nyemplung Playing Shares: Recommend MCAS

Raffi Ahmad | (Photo: Instagram, @ raffiahmad1717)

JAKARTA - Investment instruments in the form of shares are the prima donna for many parties, including public figures in 2020. Entering 2021, another public figure who has plunged into stock instruments, namely Raffi Ahmad.

Raffi Ahmad in uploads on Instagram social media, said he had joined the world of capital markets in the last three weeks. The husband of Nagita Slavina admitted that this is the first time he has invested in stocks.

The 33-year-old man said that investing in stocks is an option to face times of uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the @ raffinagita1717 account he shared about his experience investing in shares of PT M Cash Integration Tbk (MCAS).

"With a situation like this we have to really fight, whatever we have to learn with the development of IT and technology. For all of you, you guys try to trace MCAS," said Raffi.

PT M Cash Integration Tbk is a subsidiary of PT Kresna Graha Investama Tbk. Raffi said, since he put his money in MCAS, the issuer's shares have jumped 20 percent to 30 percent.

For information, citing RTI data, today MCAS shares closed up 210 points or 5.26 percent to a level of 4,200. The total trading of MCAS shares reached 1.21 million shares with a transaction value of IDR 5 billion.

Photo: RTI

Throughout 2020, MCAS shares have scored an increase of 38.54 percent and closed at the level of 3,990 on December 30, 2020. M Cash Integrasi took the floor on the Indonesia Stock Exchange on November 1, 2017 with the IPO price at that time reaching 1,385.

This means that since the IPO until today, MCAS shares have increased by 2013 percent. As of September 2020, MCAS recorded a net profit of IDR 17.87 billion, down 81.2 percent on an annual basis.

Raffi followed other public figures who began exhibiting about stock investment activities such as Kaesang Pangarep. The youngest son of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has been fond of playing stocks some time ago and often shares his experiences on his personal Twitter account, @kaesangp and echoes the Sangmology method.

Previously there was also Ustaz Yusuf Mansur. This preacher gave a new color to the domestic capital market with the concept of Mansurmology, a stock investment approach without just chasing after money.