Since NPS is used for a long-term goal like retirement, allowing younger investors to have higher exposure to equities will give them a chance to earn higher returns.
Mutual funds (MFs) have stepped up equity purchases after staying on the fence for over two months. Their net equity investments reached a four-month high of Rs 7,700 crore in July, rising for the fourth consecutive month after withdrawing a net of Rs 5,100 crore in April 2023. This trend continued in August, with net investments of Rs 3,400 crore in the first three trading sessions, according to data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged the people to share their thoughts and ideas for the next 'Mann Ki Baat' programme scheduled to be aired on June 28.
Taxation has played spoilsport despite double digit returns.
Insurance firms have designed amazing retirment plans to lure more customers.
The economists who signed the letter included Jean Drze , Abhijit Banerjee, Ajit Ranade, Jayati Ghosh, Kirit Parikh, Mihir Shah, Rohini Pande, and Vijay Joshi
'Arithmetic could decide the Haryana election given the presence of multi-cornered contests.'
The union has been opposing merger of State Bank of India's associate banks with the parent, outsourcing of work and extension of option to provident fund optees to join pension scheme, United Forum of Bank Employees said in Ludhiana.
The choice should depend on the size of the retirement corpus, stage in life, and state of health.
The finance ministry has appointed a Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, which will soon roll out a National Pension Scheme for the informal sector or for whoever wants to join.
The finance ministry on Wednesday allowed all private sector banks to participate in government-related business, like collection of taxes. pension payments and small savings schemes. At the moment, only few large private sector are allowed to conduct government-related business.
A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge.
After the success of the National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI's) first infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) with foreign institutional investors, the Centre is working on a proposal to launch a fresh InvIT for national highways, where domestic retail investors can hold units of the trust
Despite the equity booster, many would be uncomfortable about NPS.
Raising equity exposure to 50 per cent in the National Pension Scheme will benefit young investors, provided they can stomach higher volatility.
The rising goods and services tax (GST) and personal income-tax collections may bolster the Narendra Modi government's ability to announce new schemes or enhance existing ones.
Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.
NPS is a cost-effective instrument with low fund management and other fees. Unlike in mutual funds, investors get the benefit of tax-free rebalancing here.
Your financial goals are of utmost importance and the tax saving is an added incentive, advises Dwaipayan Bose.
'Right to apprenticeship means that anyone below the age of 25 years with a diploma or other qualifications can demand an apprenticeship with a private, a public sector company or a government organisation. And when he/she demands this, it is the obligation of the government to provide it.'
Investors across age groups and risk appetite can invest in these schemes.
Ask your HR department for details about the fund, trustees and returns
Soldiers remain firm in their protest against the delay in the implementation of the One Rank One Pension scheme.
'We cannot leave our entire unorganised sector to the vagaries of market forces.'
Three days before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, April 8, released its manifesto with a focus on development and national security.
Taking strong exception to complaints and grievances of people concerning the customs and excise sectors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said strict action would be taken against erring officials.
'One Rank One Pension is needed immediately and more urgently for jawans and widows,' one elderly soldier tells Sudhir Bisht at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.
The delay in receiving the revised pension was due to problems in calculation at his bank's end.
The new 'Form 5' has been brought for the benefit of pensioners and it will record all information on the basis of self-attestation by the individual concerned, said Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms, Public Grievances and Pension.
The state's joblessness is three times higher than the national average of 7.8 per cent.
Though the Congress, AAP and other Opposition parties may have high hopes and some positive takeaways to seize on from the results, it is the BJP which has a big headstart and is firmly in the lead.
'Modi must see how we live, what we have to do to educate our children.'
Going by Himachal Pradesh's "riwaj", or tradition, it should be the Congress' turn to form the next government.
According to an Andhra government statement, Naidu 'reposed confidence' in the PM's leadership.
Facing flak over its decision to impose tax at the time of withdrawal on 60 per cent of the contributions to Employees' Provident Fund, the government on Tuesday clarified that only interest accrued on 60 per cent contribution to EPF after April 1, 2016 will be taxed.
Policy decisions, particularly those which have wide-ranging implications on the nation's health and security, should be decided by bodies best suited to do so, the Delhi high court said on Monday while refusing to interfere with the Agnipath scheme.
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Denmark has been rated as the country with the best retirement system in the world.
Highly-placed sources in the government say that none of the senior ministers had any inkling of Patel's resignation
Migrant workers play a very vital role in building the nation and their rights cannot be ignored at all, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while asking the Centre to devise a mechanism so that they receive food grains without ration cards.
