Morning Brief

PwC Malaysia is bringing back the Building Trust Awards this year and it is the first to be held virtually. Participating companies will be assessed on the quality of companies’ corporate reporting, and how they are perceived by their stakeholders. This year, all constituents of both the FBM KLCI 30 and FBM Mid 70 on Bursa Malaysia are qualified for the shortlisting stage. In addition, the general public will be able to take part in the public poll to weigh in on which companies they feel have done the most to build trust. Join the poll to vote on companies that you trust at https://bit.ly/pwctrustpoll21.

Andrea Chloe Wong, a Philippines’ political analyst helps us understand the twist and turns as well as the leading contenders in the upcoming 2022 Philippines elections as President Rodrigo Duterte is poised to step down after 6 years in office.

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Adrian Ang, Research Fellow from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies helps us unpack how the US Afghanistan pullout has short term and long term ramifications on US foreign policy and how will this impact Joe Biden's popularity in the US.

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Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam from the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences provides detailed explanation on the rationale, process and approvals required if Malaysia does begin manufacturing its own vaccines as the pandemic lingers on.

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Malaysia once had the largest weightage on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at 33% but that has dropped to a 2.5% weight.

Even from a market capitalisation perspective, Malaysia has been eclipsed by almost all other Asean countries except for the Philippines and Vietnam. Pankaj C. Kumar, business commentator tells us the hard truth as to how vibrancy can be returned to our capital markets.

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Malaysia once had the largest weightage on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at 33% but that has dropped to a 2.5% weight.

Even from a market capitalisation perspective, Malaysia has been eclipsed by almost all other Asean countries except for the Philippines and Vietnam. Pankaj C. Kumar, business commentator tells us the hard truth as to how vibrancy can be returned to our capital markets.

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Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam from the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences provides detailed explanation on the rationale, process and approvals required if Malaysia does begin manufacturing its own vaccines as the pandemic lingers on.

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Adrian Ang, Research Fellow from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies helps us unpack how the US Afghanistan pullout has short term and long term ramifications on US foreign policy and how will this impact Joe Biden's popularity in the US.

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Dr. James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania helps us unpack the political implications of the new cabinet line up announced last Friday by the Prime Minister Ismail Sabri as the new leadership bench has given each of them 100 days to tackle the health crisis and heal the economy.

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The Jackson Hole Symposium meeting happened over the weekend, where prominent central bankers, finance ministers, academics, and financial market participants from around the world converged to discuss economic developments and policies albeit virtually. The highlight was the speech by Fed Chair, Jerome Powell. Prof. Hans Genberg, Professor of Economics at Asia School of Business weighs in on what was the key takeaways from this event.

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