Every 3 months, since March 2010, EPF reveals its top 30 equity investments in Bursa Malaysia. The aim for this is to promote greater transparency and to reassure members that investment undertaken are in the best interest of growing their retirement savings and in accordance to best practices in investment and governance.
For Q4 2012, when compared to Q3 2012, EPF generally reduce their investment in top 30 companies listed in Bursa Malaysia.
The most notable changes were Hong Leong Bank, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd & Axiata Group Bhd appear in the list while Star Publications Bhd, Sapura Kencana Petroleum Bhd & IOI Corporation Bhd dropped.
In the same period, EPF had increased their share in Maybank for 2.88 percent, Telekom (M) for 1.48 percent and Public Bank for 1.42 percent. Major share reduction were RHB Capital for RHB Capital for 4.33 percent and IJM Corp for 1.91 percent.
The table below are the Top 30 Equity Investments in companies listed on Bursa Malaysia as of 31st December 2012.
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Previously, we looked at 2012 top 300 world’s largest pensions fund where Malaysian funds, namely Employees Provident Fund and Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP) at number 10 and 130 respectively. The different between sovereign and non-sovereign funds are the fund ownership.
Sovereign fund is established by national authorities for the meeting of pension liabilities. So, this raking is quite similar to world’s largest pension funds but without private funds such as General Motors pension funds.
EPF down 1 rank up from 5th spot in 2011 to 6th spot in 2012 with total assets grew from $146 billion to $154 billion.
The table below is top 26 world’s largest sovereign pension funds.
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The following data are as of end 2011. Two (2) Malaysia’s pension funds namely Employees Provident Funds (EPF) and Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP) listed in top 300 world’s largest pension funds.
EPF drop 1 spot from number 9 in 2011 to number 10 in 2012 with total assets grew from $146 billion to $154 billion.
KWAP, Malaysian second largest pension fund is at number 130 up to nine spots from 139 in 2011. Total assets grow from $22 billion to $25 billion.
The table below is the full top 300 World’s Largest Pension Funds for 2012.
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Every 3 months, since March 2010, EPF reveals its top 30 equity investments in Bursa Malaysia. The aim for this is to promote greater transparency and to reassure members that investment undertaken are in the best interest of growing their retirement savings and in accordance to best practices in investment and governance.
For Q3 2012, when compared to Q2 2012, EPF generally increase their investment in top 30 companies listed in Bursa Malaysia.
There was no newly added nor removal companies to the list in Q3 2012.
In the same period, EPF had increased their share in KPJ Healthcare, Alliance Financial Group and AMMB Holdings Bhd by more than 2 percent and trim WCT Bhd stake by 3 percent.
The table below are the Top 30 Equity Investments in companies listed on Bursa Malaysia as of 30th September 2012.
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Previously, we took a look at savings range for EPF members in 2010. Do you know how much is the average saving of each active member based on age for 2011?
If you are interested to know this information, kindly take a look at the following table. It shows members average savings, total savings based on age. The figures exclude 2011 dividends.
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