BPOPF to cut out opportunistic ‘middlemen’
Monday, March 24, 2025 | 1630 Views |
Tightening up: Malindah
The decision shows that the country’s largest pension fund wants to remain unshaken even as it hunts for opportunities to invest the billions of pula in funds being returned home as part of changes in the law.
Under changes to the Retirement Funds Act, the BPOPF has to return no less than half of the P100 billion it holds in assets, back home by December 2027, but CEO Moemedi Malindah, said the pension fund would not entertain intermediaries.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...