“…There are a lot of researches conducted on the unit trust funds, including from the perspective of "investors" or "mutual fund purchasers" (Kuah, 2008), the performance of unit trusts (Galagedera, Don & Silvapulle, 2002;Bauer, Koedijk & Otten, 2002;Low, 2007), investment style of fund manager, contract cost and asset size (Ramasamy & Yeung, 2003), Islamic unit trusts performance , aggregate performance of mutual funds (Fauziah, Taib & Isa, 2007), and last but not least on price association with index in evolving market (Low & Ghazali, 2007), However, based on observation of the past literatures, there are limited studies conducted to compare the investors' behavior of using Employee Provident Fund (EPF) to invest into conventional and Islamic unit trusts especially in the Malaysian context. The significant role of the unit trust as a medium of future income generating is seen very obvious recently.…”