The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has recorded an income of RM3 billion from its investments for the third quarter of the year, a decrease of 4.2 percent from RM3.2 billion recorded in the second quarter.

In the quarter under review, the EPF had RM253 billion invested in Malaysian government securities (38.7 percent), loans and bonds (33.8 percent), equity (18.9 percent), money market instruments (7.9 percent) and properties (0.7 percent) compared with RM248 billion invested in the last quarter.

EPF said in a statement today that its investment income from Malaysian government securities, loans and bonds, money market instruments and property registered higher increases while equities yielded lower returns as compared to the last quarter.