EPF not in the business of bailing out companies, says CEO Shahril


KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has dismissed suggestions that its massive assets could be used to help troubled government owned companies.

“If you actually look at the track record of EPF, we do not bail out people or companies,” its chief executive officer Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan said in an interview with StarBiz.

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