Is EPF's income decline cause for concern?
Good question. But the written answer he got was the same stock reply that the EPF gave in June when it announced the first quarter performance for 2025.
Total income declined 13 percent to RM18.31 billion, and equity income, accounting for six tenths of total income, declined by 23 percent to RM10.81 billion.
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