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EPFO plans new benchmarks for EPF, EPS, and EDLI investment returns

EPFO presently assesses the performance of its multiple fund managers on the basis of an evaluation conducted by its consultant Crisil Limited based on portfolio yields and asset quality

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EPFO invests anywhere between 45-65 per cent of all its fresh accretions in government securities, followed by 20-45 per cent in debt instruments, 5-15 per cent in the equity markets through index funds, and zero to five per cent in short term debt i

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4 min read Last Updated : Oct 12 2025 | 11:02 PM IST

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The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which manages the retirement savings of India’s formal workforce, is working on devising a separate benchmark for the yields on investments under the three social security schemes it operates – the employees’ provident fund (EPF), pension scheme (EPS) and a deposit-linked insurance cover (EDLI), the Business Standard has learnt.

The development comes in the wake of a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggestion to the Labour and Employment Ministry to review the EPFO’s present approach of investing all three schemes’ corpus as a common ₹25 trillion pool with the same investment pattern, even though

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