Tackling Telekom Malaysia

As Khazanah’s biggest investment, Telekom Malaysia is perhaps the most notorious symbol of the inefficiencies evident in the country’s public sector. A successful participation in an exchangeable bond and improving financial figures suggest management is starting to turn the company around but it is still falling short of its key performance indicators. Sudip Roy reports.

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THE TELL-TALE sign is in the price. When Khazanah, the Malaysian state’s investment arm, became the first borrower to issue an Islamic exchangeable bond in late September it chose Telekom Malaysia as the counterpart into whose shares the bonds can be exchanged.

TM is the biggest firm in Khazanah’s portfolio, and, as such, is most closely associated with the mainly historically pedestrian performance of Khazanah’s various holdings.

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