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Aug 26, 2015

PFRDA to launch online facility to open NPS accounts

Pension fund regulator PFRDA is set to launch an online facility for opening of accounts under the National Pension System (NPS) to net in prospective customers."We are set to launch the online on-boarding facility for the prospective customers of pension schemes under the NPS," PFRDA chairman Hemant Contractor told reporters on the sidelines of an insurance summit organised by the industry lobby CII here this evening.


We have also urged the government to offer tax-breaks to pension schemes falling on the lines of other financial products likemutual funds and insurance, to popularise pension products in the unorganised sector," he said.The Pension Funds Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA has sought clarification from the government if the pension productsbeing run by various fund houses and life insurers can be regulated by it"We have asked the government to clarify whether we can regulate the pension business being run by mutual fund houses and life insurers because the PFRDA Act empowers us to regulate all kinds of pension business," Contractor said.


On the pension business being managed by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation ( EPFO), he said it is up to the government to decide that who will be regulating it.Commenting on the progress of NPS, he said the NPS corpus has already crossed Rs 94,000 crore so far, which includes Rs 7,000 crore from the Atal Pension Yojana.He further said, "We've already opened 6,80,000 accounts under the Atal Pension scheme during thepast couple of months and we are looking at taking it to 2 crore by December. Out of these 6,80,000 accounts, 65 per cent subscribers come from urban areas and the restfrom the rural areas."The three state-owned fund managers, who are managing the Atal Pension scheme funds are UTI,SBI and LIC Pension Fund.The regulator is getting ready to appoint new fund managers for the NPS, which has seven active fund managers now and also reviewing fund management charges.Contractor also said the regulator isplanning to increase the tenure of NPS fund managers to five years from the present three."We don't mind paying a higher commission to incentivise fund managers and distributors so as to expand the NPS reach. We are reviewing a proposal in this regard and we will be issuing a request for proposal to appoint new fund managers within a month," he said.

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