{"id":501067,"date":"2026-02-24T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501067\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:55:08","slug":"epf-announcement-on-dividend-rates-expected-on-saturday-feb-28-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501067\/","title":{"rendered":"EPF announcement on dividend rates expected on Saturday (Feb 28) | Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is expected to announce its dividend for the 2025 financial year at a media briefing on Feb 28.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing is expected to be chaired by EPF chief executive officer Ahmad Zulqarnain Onn, and will be closely followed by the EPF&#8217;s more than 16 million members.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts had earlier predicted that the EPF is expected to deliver a dividend rate of between 6.3 per cent and 6.5 per cent for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For the year 2024, the EPF declared a dividend rate of 6.3 per cent for both its conventional and Shariah savings accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the EPF&#8217;s nine-month 2025 performance, which recorded an 11 per cent increase in gross investment income, the retirement fund remains on track to post a respectable dividend payout for the year.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, EPF dividend rates have remained resilient despite global market volatility, supported by steady investment income and prudent risk management.<\/p>\n<p>The strengthening of the ringgit against other currencies has also played an important role in boosting the country&#8217;s investments. \u2013 February 24, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is expected to announce its dividend for the 2025 financial year at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5871,64,63,99,12585,251972,35787,186,184,185,46907],"class_list":{"0":"post-501067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-announcement","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-ceo","13":"tag-dividend","14":"tag-epf","15":"tag-finance","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-saturday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}