EPF: Elbowing financial repression, embracing radical transparency


  • Letters
  • Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Like other pension funds, the Malaysian Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) are a very distinctive form of assets - peoples’ hard-earned money pooled together and fund managed to support their retirement lives - and this is one of the cornerstones of our national social security system.

Although the EPF does a reasonable job of safeguarding and growing peoples’ lifetime savings, there is still much room for improvement.

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Monthly Plan

RM 13.90/month

Best Value

Annual Plan

RM 12.33/month

RM 8.02/month

Billed as RM 96.20 for the 1st year, RM 148 thereafter.

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