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EPFO to double equity investments in ETF in the current fiscal

30 Sep 2016 Evaluate

After getting handsome return of 12.10% in the 2015-16 by investing employees Provident Fund savings in equity exchange traded funds (ETFs), the retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has decided to double equity investments in ETF in the current fiscal.
 
Labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said that EPFO will invest 10% of its annual incremental deposits or an estimated Rs 13,000 crore in the 2016-17. EPFO has already invested Rs 1,500 crore in ETFs in the first half of the current Fiscal Year and will invest about Rs 11,500 crore in the remaining six months. Minister said that we have already issued a notification raising the EPFO investment limit of ETFs to 10% from the current 5% of its investible deposits keeping the good economic situation, ground conditions and how social security funds invest globally.

EPFO till now was investing 5 % of the incremental deposits in exchange-traded funds and last year invested over Rs 6517 crore of the annual incremental corpus in stocks after the finance ministry persuaded it to do so and the return on EPFO’s equity investments in the last one year has been 12.10%.

The finance ministry had last year notified a new investment pattern for EPFO, allowing the body to invest a minimum of 5 per cent and up to 15 per cent of its funds in equity or equity-related schemes. EPFO has a total corpus of Rs 8 lakh crore and an annual incremental inflow of around Rs 1.3 lakh crore.

 

 

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