Article: EPF plan to raise investment in stock market `timely', BUSINESS TIMES

Hamisah Hamid
Business Times (Malaysia)
09-19-2001
THE Employees Provident Fund (EPF)'s plan to increase its exposure to the
stock market is seen by analysts as timely given inadequate government
bonds for the pension fund to subscribe and the anticipated rebound in
the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) next year.
Analysts expect the EPF to gradually increase its investment in the
share market but cap it to 25 or 30 per cent of the fund's asset allocation.

Currently, about 23 per cent of the EPF's total investible fund (RM180
billion) is in the stock market, slightly higher than 21.22 per cent as
end of March and 22.21 per cent as end of June.
"The EPF fund is getting larger and larger (from ...

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