EPF (KWSP)

EPF Announced 6.9% and 6.4% Dividend for 2017


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The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) announced dividend rate of 6.90 percent conventional savings and 6.4% for shariah savings for the financial year ended 31st December 2017. The dividend are 1.20 percent higher and 0.7 percent higher for conventional and shariah saving respectively than the 5.70 percent dividend announced in 2016.

Kindly refer to “Historical Employees Provident Funds (EPF / KWSP) Dividend Rate” page for EPF dividend rate table & chart since 1952. You may want to calculate the dividend received by using EPF Dividend Calculator.

The total dividend payout stand at RM44.15 billion and RM3.98 billion for conventional and shariah saving respectively.  for conventional and shariah saving respectively

For the conventional saving, the 6.9% dividend was the highest rate announced since 1997.

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EPF Announced 5.7% Dividend for 2016


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The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) announced dividend rate of 5.70 percent for the financial year ended 31st December 2016. The dividend is 0.70 percent lower than 6.40 percent announced in 2015.

Kindly refer to “Historical Employees Provident Funds (EPF / KWSP) Dividend Rate” page for EPF dividend rate table & chart since 1952. You may want to calculate the dividend received by using EPF Dividend Calculator.

The total dividend payout stand at RM37.08 billion from RM46.56 billon income.  The remaining are used for investment expenses, operating expenditures, statutory charges and net impairment allowance on financial assets. The income is an increase of 5.25 per cent compared with the RM44.23 billion recorded in 2015.

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EPF Announced 6.40% Dividend for 2015

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The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) announced dividend rate of 6.40 percent for the financial year ended 31st December 2015. It was the second highest since year 2000 and lower than 6.75 percent announced in 2014.

Kindly refer to “Historical Employees Provident Funds (EPF / KWSP) Dividend Rate” page for EPF dividend rate table & chart since 1952. You may want to calculate the dividend received by using EPF Dividend Calculator.

The total dividend payout stand at RM38.24 billion from RM44.23 billon income.  The remaining are used for investment expenses, operating expenditures, statutory charges and net impairment allowance on financial assets. The payout representing an increase of 4.48 per cent compared to RM36.60 billion recorded in 2014.

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The Imagined EPF Retirement Crisis – A Fact-less Drama

RetireJust as everyone has long expected, the EPF is finally beating the war drum of upping the withdrawal age, in trying to be logical and in trying to be in lockstep with the retirement age.  This will of course deny millions of contributors of early access to their hard-earned money.  To avoid huge public backlash, the EPF decided to perform a “market survey” first, just to have a taste what the public is actually thinking.  Ever since the government pushed the retirement age upward to 60 years old, the threat of higher withdrawal age is always looming large for all Malaysians.

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EPF Announced 6.75% Dividend for 2014

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The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) announced dividend rate of 6.75 percent for the financial year ended 31st December 2014. It was the highest since year 2000 and higher than 6.35 percent announced in 2013.

Kindly refer to “Historical Employees Provident Funds (EPF / KWSP) Dividend Rate” page for EPF dividend rate table & chart since 1952. You may want to calculate the dividend received by using EPF Dividend Calculator.

The total dividend payout stand at RM36.60 billion from RM39.08 billon investment income.  The remaining are used for investment expenses, operating expenditures, statutory charges and net impairment allowance on financial assets. The payout representing an increase of 17.31 per cent compared to RM31.20 billion recorded in 2013.

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