Total assets under management (AUM) as on January 1, 2022 stood at Rs 6,99,172 crore, PFRDA said
Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) will continue to carry an annual interest rate of 7.1 per cent and 6.8 per cent, respectively, in the fourth quarter as well
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Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) will continue to carry an annual interest rate of 7.1 per cent and 6.8 per cent, respectively
The schemes will continue to fetch small investors better rates than other fixed income avenues such as bank fixed deposits
Check whether you saved adequately during the previous financial year, your asset allocation is in sync, and you have adequate life and health insurance
Invest if you want tax benefit and are okay with long lock-in and 40% annuitisation
However, do so only if your asset allocation requires you to invest more on the debt side, and you are comfortable with the long lock-in
West Bengal is the midst of a high-pitched assembly election
SP's supremo Akhilesh Yadav asked the BJP government at the Centre to withdraw forever any decision on slashing interest rates on small savings, saying its decisions have created fear among people
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Government had announced a cut in small savings rates by 50-100 basis points for the first quarter of the new financial year.
West Bengal leads the annual state wise table of contribution to small savings at 15.09 per cent. For the year FY18, Tamil Nadu is fifth in the small savings pecking order at 4.8 per cent
Reversal of interest rate cut should have been avoided
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to explain to the nation the flip-flop over interest rates on small saving schemes. Sitharaman on Thursday morning said the government will rollback a steep interest rate cut on small saving schemes such as PPF and NSC, saying it was an oversight. "The Finance Minister must explain the flip-flop to the nation why first such anti-people decision was taken to cut the interest rates on small saving schemes including PPF & NSC and then taken back?" Gehlot said in a tweet. "Is the government playing a very cruel prank on common people on April 1 by announcing interest rate cuts at night and then next morning reversing the decision," he asked. The government's decision to rollback citing "oversight" was taken hours after announcing the steepest cut in the rate on small savings schemes. Interest rate on Public Provident Fund (PPF) was reduced by 0.7 per cent to 6.4 per cent while National Savings
The opposition party also said Sitharaman had no moral right to continue as the finance minister
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The rate of interest on PPF has declined from 7.1 per cent earlier to 6.4 per cent now
Rules apply only for cash withdrawals of non-ITR filers