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Has Khazanah stopped growing?

A reader's Q&A.

Jun 20, 2026
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I’ve probably committed one of the gravest sins of online headline writing: using the same buzzword in the headline twice.

In this case it’s “Khazanah”, which I also used on Thursday.

So, the website will look a tad off.

But, sometimes the occasion calls for it.

Also “Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund” is a mouthful.


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The newsletter has grown to the point where I’m getting email requests1.

I have two in the inbox, and I’ll kill one right now.

A reader asked me to benchmark Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional against a group of similar funds and crunch the data to see whether our sovereign wealth fund is “stalling”.

This was after I published Thursday’s newsletter on Khazanah.

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Here’s what I did and what I found:

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