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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia can consider establishing a national-level decumulation mechanism that converts accumulated retirement savings into lifelong income as the country prepares for an ageing population, said Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (CPFB) deputy chief executive officer (services) Wong Yan Jun.
By Durratul Ain Ahmad Fuad
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- A university researcher suggested that Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributors must have at least RM100,000 in savings by the age of 55 to enable them to afford living expenses of RM780 per month after retirement.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia aims to increase the Retirement Income Adequacy framework to six in 10 Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members to reach the ‘Basic Savings’ benchmark of RM390,000 by age 60 by 2030.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) aims to channel RM15 billion into green and transition asset investments and RM500 million into social impact investments by 2030 under its newly unveiled Sustainability Framework 2026 (SF 2026).
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- Enhancing the Housing Credit Guarantee Scheme (SJKP) and introducing improved financing structures are among the proposals made by the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (REHDA) Malaysia for Budget 2027.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 (Bernama) -- Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) will provide between RM120 million and RM150 million in support for electricity bill protection between September and December 2026, said its president and chief executive officer Datuk Shamsul Ahmad.
By Rosemarie Khoo Mohd Sani
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s imperative in the Budget 2027 cycle is no longer to generate growth, but to institutionalise growth stability -- making expansion more productive, inclusive and resilient across the cycle, said Juwai IQI global chief economist Shan Saeed.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Electricity consumers have received rebates totalling RM3.1 billion since the introduction of the Automatic Fuel Adjustment (AFA) mechanism on July 1, 2025, compared to surcharges of RM800 million imposed during the same period, said Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB).
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Mavenir, a cloud-native network infrastructure provider, was featured in four award-winning entries at Light Reading’s 2026 Leading Lights Awards, recognising its work in non-terrestrial networks, cloud-native core innovation, network modernisation and energy efficiency.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 (Bernama) -- Budget 2027 should move Malaysia’s artificial intelligence (AI) agenda beyond data centre construction towards enterprise adoption, domestic intellectual property, cybersecurity and workforce productivity.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 (Bernama) -- Malaysian crude grades continued to command significantly higher premiums over Dated Brent, a benchmark for physical crude oil prices, indicating that the country was able to partially cushion the impact of lower outright oil prices on revenues.
PETALING JAYA, Sept 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysia expects about nine gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired power capacity to be deployed by 2032 as the country manages growing electricity demand while progressively phasing out coal-fired generation.
