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Inside BPOPF’s plans as billions drift back home

Looking ahead: Malindah sees pension funds as game changers for the local economy PIC: BPOPF
Looking ahead: Malindah sees pension funds as game changers for the local economy PIC: BPOPF

All eyes are on how the country’s largest fund, the BPOPF which sits just shy of P100 billion in assets, will handle the statutory requirement for pension funds to increase their local investments to 50% by 2027. CEO Moemedi Malindah speaks to Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

Mmegi: The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority has published the revised pension fund rules, which require that pension funds repatriate a certain percentage of their offshore holdings in the years to 2027. Into what areas does the BPOPF expect to invest these repatriated funds into locally?

Malindah: Our main focus or where we really want to place is on the infrastructure side and as these amounts come in, we are going to be playing there. Infrastructure is a very difficult asset class to penetrate because it takes a long time, it’s contract based and there are a whole lot of things that need to happen.

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