Retirement fund body EPFO invests Rs 1,59,299 crore in ETFs

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Retirement fund body EPFO invests Rs 1,59,299 crore in ETFs

The retirement fund body EPFO has invested up to Rs 1,59, 299.46 crore in Exchange Traded Funds ETFs till March 2022 and the notional market value of these investments is Rs 2,26, 919.18 crore, Parliament was informed on Monday. Since August 2015, the EPFO has been investing in ETFs. The proportion was increased to 10 per cent in 2016 -- 17 and 15 per cent in 2017 -- 18 and onwards after the body decided to invest 5 per cent of its investible deposits into stock markets. The union minister for labour and employment Rameshwar Teli said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation EPFO has invested Rs 1,59, 299.46 crore in ETFs until March 31, 2022. The notional market value of the EPFO's investment in ETFs stood at Rs 2,26, 919.18 crore as of March 31, 2022, according to the reply. The minister told the House that the EPFO invested Rs 12,199. In the April-June period this year, there were 26 crore in ETFs, while the total investment in debt and equity was Rs 84,477. 67 crore. In 2021 -- 22 crore, Rs 32,070. There were 84 crore in 2020 -- 21 and 31,501 in the year 2020- 21. In 2019 -- 20 there were 09 crore in ETFs. The EPFO invests 85 per cent of the funds in debt instruments and 15 per cent of the investment is made in ETFs, as per the investment pattern notified by the government. Teli said that the investment in ETFs is based on Nifty 50, Sensex, Central Public Sector Enterprises CPSEs and Bharat 22 indices.