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Pension Funds in India
Pension Funds in India
Presented By-
Manya
Jyoti
• A pension fund is any plan, fund, or scheme
which provides retirement income
• A fund established by an employer to facilitate
and organize the investment of employees'
retirement funds contributed by the employer
and employees. The pension fund is a common
asset pool meant to generate stable growth over
the long term, and provide pensions for
employees when they reach the end of their
working years and commence retirement.
• India does not have a comprehensive old age
income security system. There are however,
some mandatory schemes for employees of
State and Central governments, employees of
public sector banks, employees in firms with a
staff of 20 or more and some others.
• The insurance and the mutual fund industry in
India has also started offering pension plans.
Pension Fund Divided Into
• Pensions under an Act
• Government pensions
• Voluntary pensions
Pensions under an Act
1. Pensions under the EPF & MP act 1952
– Employees provident fund scheme
As per amendment-dated 22.9.1997 in the Act, both the
employees and employer contribute to the fund at the rate of
12% of the basic wages, dearness allowance and retaining
allowance, if any, payable to employees per month.
– Employees pension scheme
Employees’ Pension Scheme is Pension Scheme for survivors,
old aged and disabled persons.
– Employees deposit linked insurance scheme
The objective of the scheme was to put in place a mechanism
to provide employees families with income security after the
death of the member. It was funded through contributions by
the employer & central government with no contribution by the
employee himself.
Government pensions
• Central Government Pension
• State government pension
Voluntary pensions
Plans sold in the market by-
• Mutual fund
• Insurance firms
Mutual fund pension plans
There are primarily two pension plans that mutual funds in India offer:
• Templeton India pension plan.
TIPP invests in a mix of high quality debt instruments and equities to
ensure relative stability of your investment and to deliver superior
returns in comparison to traditional tax-saving instruments.
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HDFC Standard life insurance co. ltd
• Unit linked pension maximiser II
• Unit Linked pension
• Personal Pension Plan
• Unit Linked Pension II
• Unit Linked Pension Plus
Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Limited
• Tata AIG Life Easy Retire
• Tata AIG Life Nirvana Plus
• Tata AIG Life Nirvana
• Tata AIG Life MahaLife Gold
• Tata AIG Life InvestAssure Future