“Malaysia has all the parameters that tick the boxes for investors as they look at asset allocation and investments,” he said.
Malaysia could end up among the biggest beneficiaries in emerging markets if the Trump administration’s disruptive trade policies trigger a further sell-off in US assets, according to a top executive at CIMB Group Holdings.
“We could potentially see a lot of capital freed up and move to emerging markets,” Novan Amirudin, CEO of CIMB, Malaysia’s third-largest bank by market value, told Bloomberg Television’s Avril Hong.
