Caretaker prime minister Najib Abdul Razak facing Malaysia's 14th general election made it to the cover story for the latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek.

In an interview on wide-ranging topics, he spoke on the 1MDB affair, how he has survived "hard times" and his chief opponent in the coming polls, Pakatan Harapan's Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The print version of the interview also saw Najib talking about change, or more specifically, the need to postpone change.

"Change, that's a cliché," Businessweek quoted Najib as saying.