This is an excerpt of a report from The Star:
…Najib also announced that contributors to the Armed Forces Superannuation Fund (LTAT) would receive a 16% dividend and bonus payout, the highest since 1997.
He said the LTAT would pay out 7% in dividends, 3% bonus and another 6% in special bonuses to its 120,000 contributors for 2007.
“LTAT recorded a gross unaudited profit of RM606mil, a 29.2% increase compared to the RM468.9mil achieved in 2006,” he said, adding that the amount was the second highest since LTAT was established.
The highest gross profit recorded was in 1996, when the fund made RM697.6mil.
And here is a reaction from a friend of mine:
So Najib announces a 16% dividend for LTAT. And EPF was only able to deliver 5.8% (for 2007)? ASB announced 8.5% a short while back.
What does this tell us? That this is a government for all the people and, especially, the lower income? Or that this is a government of sectional interests? Or that this is simply an incompetent government, milking the EPF as a cheap source of funds for its multi-billion dollar schemes which do not appear to have been especially well thought through.
Take SCORE (the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy), for example. The first of the energy backbone for SCORE, namely Bakun, has seen a disaster of a resettlement, while the second proposed energy backbone, namely Murum, may well be the nail in the coffin of the Penan, who have been swept aside by plantation development.
EPF is managed by the government, while ASB is managed by PNB and LTAT is a government statutory body.
The largest fund in the country (EPF) turns in a totally lack-lustre performance against much smaller funds. The fund that’s the retirement income of, especially, lowly paid workers, gives them a miserable return compared to the likes of ASB or LTAT.
Maybe EPF contributors should turn the fund over to the PNB, provided PNB can assure them that it will deliver dividends on par with ASB.
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What a ahame, absolute shame but the greater shame is that Govt. cannot feel it. Adding injury to insult, PM saya Malaysia owned by all. They are actually amoral having NO SENSE AT ALL OF MORALITY. They are out to makan orang of the other races. A sure FAILED STATE in the making. All the other component parties of BN knows all about this but choose to turn a blind eye, typical (lackeys) of UMNO.
As long as the fund is managed by the government, you do n ot have to expect a good result. Read the news on the Star. Items costs a few ringgit, the government paid more than a few hundred ringgit for it. Why? Where is the clean and efficent seen in this country. It is only supporting and helping their own cronies to growth richer. When these cronies run out of cash, they will use the fund money to bail them out like other authors had mentione earlier.
its a typical racist policy-its that simple this has been going on ever since the great mahathir …
It’s simple.
The bumis get more than the non-bumis(EPF).
Most LTAT contributors are bumis and ASB contributors are bumis.
EPF contributors are mostly from the private sector which is predominantly non-malay.
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I don’t understand – how can EPF with so much funds invested give us so little dividend. And LTAT (with i don’t think have much funds) give dividend more than double that of EPF.
We should have a new GOVERNMENT to get EPF to invest properly so that EPF contributors can get much better dividends.
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