You are currently working as an analyst at Financial Consulting Bhd$.$ Your boss has instructed you to form an equity fund portfolio which consists of two telecommunication companies, namely, Telekom Malaysia Berhad $($TM$4863)$ & Maxis Berhad $($Maxis $6012).$ The portfolios have a total fund size of RM$100$ million. Before you can start with your analysis, you have to collect monthly stock prices of each stock in your portfolio over the last $12$ months. $($Hint: The selected companies should be listed in Bursa Malaysia$)$

You are required to:

$($a$)$ Describe the background $($operation$,$ management team, market etc$)$ of the companies.

$(10$ marks$)$