The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), the Retirement fund body, has decided to invest around Rs 410 crore in exchange traded funds (ETFs), every month during the current financial year. The body has decided to invest 5% of its incremental deposits every month. ETFs are security that tracks an index, a commodity or a basket of assets such as an index fund, but trades like a stock on an exchange.
Currently, the EPFO has received average monthly incremental deposits of Rs 8,200 crore during this financial year so far. Accordingly, 5 per cent of incremental deposits comes to around Rs 410 crore
In April 2015, Labour Ministry had suggested new investment pattern, which provided that EPFO will invest a minimum of 5% and up to 15% of incremental deposits in equity or equity-related schemes. Though, it has not invested in any ETF so far.
The EPFO has been mainly investing in the central and state government securities which provide fixed returns and complete safety of investments. It manages a huge corpus of Rs 6.5 lakh crore with a subscribers base of six crore.
Earlier, the Department of Disinvestment (DoD) had asked EPFO to invest Rs 6,000 crore in the country's only exchange traded fund of PSU stocks, however later it committed Rs. 1,000 crore. The ETF forms, part of government disinvestment programme of current financial year through which DOD targets to raise Rs 41,000 crore by selling minority stake in PSUs.
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