Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation

Formal job creation under the Employees Provident Fund Organisation went up in January while the net new additions under the Employees State Insurance Corporation and the National Pension Scheme fell month-on-month, suggesting an uneven…

The EPFO is the country’s largest retirement fund and the second largest non-banking financial institution with a corpus of about ₹16 lakh crore The EPFO is the country’s largest retirement fund and the second largest non-banking…

Around 15.26 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in December 2021 against 10.39 lakh in the previous month, official data showed on Friday, giving a perspective on formal sector employment in the country. The latest…

The EPFO had amended the scheme in 2014 to cap monthly pensionable basic wages to ₹15,000. The EPFO had amended the scheme in 2014 to cap monthly pensionable basic wages to ₹15,000. Retirement fund body EPFO is mulling a new pension…

Investments to be scrutinised daily. Nearly seven years after starting to deploy a part of its corpus in the stock market through professional fund managers, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has now decided to appoint…

Account holders are eligible for assured life insurance benefits, without having to pay any premium. The Employee Provident Fund (EPF), besides being a trusted investment scheme for salaried employees, comes with various other benefits for…

NEW DELHI: It is well known that real interest rates in India are currently deep in the negative territory, which is a key reason why investors looking for optimal returns rush to the equity markets. The quest for higher returns now has a…

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) Central Board of Trustees (CBT) on Saturday approved a proposal that would speed up decisions on investment opportunities, according to EPFO officials. The CBT, at a meeting chaired by…

Formal job creation in the country continued to register month-on-month growth signalling a pick up in economic activity in the country as Covid cases remained low and business activities resumed to pre-Covid levels. The provisional…

The story so far: Started as the New Pension Scheme for government employees in 2004 under a new regulator called the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), the National Pension System (NPS) has been open for…