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KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) investment income dropped 10.47% to RM3.26bil for the first quarter ended March 31 from RM3.64bil recorded in the fourth quarter of 2008.

The decline was due to lower investment returns from both fixed-income instruments and equities, EPF said in a statement yesterday.

The highest income contributor in the first quarter was loans and bonds, which contributed RM1.78bil, a drop of 2.15% against RM1.82bil in the fourth quarter of last year.

As at March 31, 36.81% of loans and bonds investments was in companies with AAA credit ratings and 49.97% in companies with AA ratings.

Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) was the second-highest income earner, returning RM1.11bil, a drop of 13.23% from RM1.28bil earned in the preceding quarter.

“Despite the drop in earnings from loans and bonds and MGS, we will continue to invest in these investments,” chief executive officer Tan Sri Azlan Zainol said in the statement.

“This is because they provide capital preservation and stable returns, which is in accordance with our investment mandate that favours low-risk instruments.”

During the quarter, equities contributed RM223.83mil after investment provisioning resulting from the decline in equity prices, compared with RM342.54mil in the previous quarter.

The EPF continued to invest in blue-chip stocks with a strong focus on two sectors. Of the funds invested in the equities market, 37.43% was in trade and services sector while 33.93% was in the financial sector.

“The market is expected to remain challenging in the near term following the impact of the global recession on the domestic economy.

“However, improving outlook on the external front, strong domestic fiscal impulse and the existence of ample liquidity are expected to help bolster market performance in the second half of 2009,” said Azlan.

The EPF’s total fund currently stands at RM348.16bil, up 1.93% from RM341.56bil in the last quarter of 2008. — Bernama

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KUALA LUMPUR: Prudential Assurance Malaysia Bhd has posted a 17% growth in new business sales to RM122mil in the first quarter of 2009 compared with RM105mil in the same period last year, it said in a statement. — Bernama

The company’s new business annual premium equivalent (APE), which consists of retail life insurance sales and takaful contributions, rose to RM122mil from RM105mil previously, it said in a statement.

“These results once again demonstrate the strong fundamentals and excellent momentum of Prudential’s business in Malaysia,” said PAMB chairman Tony Wilkey, who is also chief executive, insurance, Prudential Corp Asia.

He said the company’s aggressive recruitment drive, together with systematic implementation of sales and marketing efforts to improve agency activity, continued to have a positive impact on its performance.

”We have successfully recruited over 500 new agents in the first quarter of the year, bringing the total of our agency force to 9,766,” Wilkey said.

”APE sales per active agent also increased by 10%,” he said, adding that the positive growth was also supported by strong consumer demand for protection and health products. — Bernama