Tuesday, January 18, 2011

#Update* Khazanah portfolio value up 23.5pct to RM112.6b

KUALA LUMPUR: Khazanah Nasional Bhd's investment portfolio based on realisable asset value (RAV) rose to a record high of RM112.6 billion as at end-December 2010.

The government's investment holding arm said on Tuesday, Jan 18 this was a 23.5% increase from the RM92 billion.

'Net worth adjusted (NWA) rose RM21.2 billion or 39.4% to RM75 billion,' it said. As at Dec 31, 2009 it was RM53.8 billion.

Khazanah said compared against the starting point of its transformation programme in May 2004, both RAV and NWA have more than doubled by 121.2% and 125.2%, respectively.

Bernama, meanwhile reported Khazanah's overall net investment stance was neutral in 2010, with a total of RM6.5 billion in investments and RM6.2 billion in divestments.

Aggregate earnings of 20 leading government-linked companies was forecast to touch the previous peak of RM19.3 billion in 2007, and to rise further in 2011.

As at Dec 31, 2010, market capitalisation of the 20 GLCs reached an all-time high of RM343 billion.

Their annual total shareholder return of 16.3% outperformed the rest of the FBM KUALA LUMPUR COMPOSITE INDEX [] (KLCI) by 2.2% per annum.

Meanwhile, the nine companies controlled by Khazanah within 20 GLCs recorded a total shareholder return of 17.4% per annum, outperforming the rest of the KLCI by 3.4% per annum.


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