Unreal repo rate hurts?
Repo rate bites small investors Reduced Payout by EPFO: EPFO (The Employees Provident Fund Organisation) declared interest payout of 8.1% to its subscribers for FY 2021-22. This is the lowest interest payout since 1977-78. Its regular earnings, which was 8.5% of its total corpus during last year, declined to 7.9% in FY22. EPFO consciously decided to liquidate some of its equity investments and use the capital gains of app. Rs.5529 cr. in its interest payout, so as to make it decent at 8.1%. The saving grace is, unlike in the past when pre-period reserves were also used for such payouts, the interest payout for the current FY comes out of its current earnings. Unrealistic returns on investments: The lowest interest payout by EPFO should not surprise anyone, who closely follow the monetary and regulatory prescriptions since 2019. In fact, I have written in my blog https://viswoice.blogspot.com/2021/06/unreal-repo-rates-hurts-...