KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) strategy of diversifying into different asset classes, including private equity investment, will reduce the overall portfolio risks while delivering stable returns in the future. “Our key focus this year is on building our pipeline of private market assets, mainly in infrastructure, property and private equities. He added that EPF would still focus on market-driven asset classes such as equities this year. “Real estate investment gives the opportunity for the EPF to diversify its portfolio, which can reduce the overall portfolio risks. “Increasingly, pension funds have started going into private equity in search of higher returns.

Source: New Strait Times February 21, 2017 03:11 UTC