Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said that the retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) investment in stocks via exchange traded funds (ETFs) is expected to cross the Rs 45,000 crore mark by the end of fiscal year 2017-18.
The minister has stated that the trustees of EPFO have raised ETF investment limit to 15% of investible deposits in 2017-18, from the current 10%. With this, he observed that the total investment may go up to Rs 45,000 crore. He noted that the rate of return last year was 13.3 per cent from ETFs. Adding further, he said “the markets are good and let's see the situation, but it is an encouraging one.”
Further, Dattatreya has said that his ministry is in the process of consolidating 44 laws into four codes covering industrial relations, wages, social security and safety issues, in order to simplify them. Besides, he also said that the government is planning to create 65 million jobs in the auto sector alone by 2026. Meanwhile, as of April 21 this year, an investment stood at Rs 21,559 crore. The EPFO invested Rs 6,577 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 14,982 crore in 2016-17.
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