News From Press Govt ETFs in EPF fare poorly, but you can’t switch

Govt ETFs in EPF fare poorly, but you can’t switch

Source: Mint Feb 28, 2019

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) brought some good and bad news last week. First for the good news: it raised the interest rate on deposits for its 60 million subscribers to 8.65% for 2018-19, giving a boost to retirement savings. The bad news was that EPFO’s investments in select exchange-traded funds (ETFs) yielded subpar returns. Although still a small part of the EPF corpus, over time this can harm returns from EPFO, especially once the authority decides to unitize the corpus.

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