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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