Tag Archives: EPF

Wednesday, 15 March 2017   KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) bought 19.24 million shares in IOI Corporation Bhd in early March and raised its shareholding to 480.63 million units. Filings with Bursa Malaysia showed the pension fund bought 3 million shares of the plantation heavyweight on 6 March …

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) says a total of RM59.03 billion of the initial RM100 billion fund allocated for Simpanan Shariah 2017 have been taken up and 635,037 members have switched to Simpanan Shariah, as at 23 December 2016. “We have anticipated that at …

Monday, 31 October 2016 PETALING JAYA: The Employer Provident Fund (EPF) is urging all employers to start using its e-Caruman online payments facility as its manual system for EPF contributions by employers will be scrapped beginning January 2017. All employer transactions with EPF will be done online going forward and …

Monday, 8 August 2016   KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF)’s Simpanan Shariah, which will be launched in January 2017, is now open for registration at EPF branches, nationwide, to all members regardless of race, religion and nationality. Members who wish to convert their conventional EPF savings to Simpanan …

Monday, 25 July 2016 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) fully shariah-compliant investment scheme or ‘Simpanan Shariah’ that will kick in next year will exclude conventional banking from its investment portfolio. Nevertheless, its investment strategy will still be guided by its Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) model, with the objectives of preserving and enhancing …

Monday, 30 May 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) registered strong financial performance in the first quarter ended 31 March 2017 with investment income of nearly RM11.8 billion, aided by sharply lower impairments. It said on Tuesday the income was up 73.9% from RM6.78 billion in the previous …

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 PETALING JAYA: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) posted a 74% jump in investment income to RM11.8 billion in the first quarter ended 31 March, as it benefited from rising global stock prices. The value of its assets under management rose 2.2% or RM16 billion from 31 …

Friday, 12 May 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has outsourced RM108 billion as at end-December 2016 to external portfolio managers to invest in  equity and fixed income instruments. It said on Friday the amount was 10.36% compared with RM97.86 billion in 2015. “This allocation, invested in both …

Friday, 21 April 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) could break out of its 2 straight years of declaring lower dividends this year if Bursa Malaysia continues its uptrend movement. In the financial year 2015 (FY15) and FY16, the EPF’s dividend had been on a declining trend after …

Friday, 7 April 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is giving free financial literacy guidance to its members that will inculcate better financial and retirement planning, chief executive officer Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan said. He said the free service is available at all its branches would certainly assist …