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Retirement fund manager EPFO will take a decision next month on hiring a consultant for initiating process of selection of new fund managers for its huge corpus of about Rs 5 lakh crore.
According to agenda of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) apex decision making body Central Board of Trustees’ (CBT) meeting scheduled on January 14, the proposal for appointment of the consultant would be discussed and approved in the meet.
The consultant would also evaluate the performance of new fund managers and appoint a custodian and concurrent auditor for the EPFO.
At present, Crisil is providing consultancy services to the EPFO.
The existing four fund managers of EPFO – SBI, HSBC AMC, Reliance Capital and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership – were appointed for a term of three years beginning September 1, 2011.
Among the four managers, SBI manages biggest chunk of fund with 35 per cent of corpus followed by ICICI Securities Primary Dealership at 25 per cent. HSBC AMC and Reliance Capital manage 20 per cent each.
In the last bidding, Reliance Capital had quoted a fee of Rs 0.04 per annum for managing Rs 10,000, and was the second lowest bidder after ICICI Securities Primary Dealership which quoted a rate of Rs 0.03.
SBI had quoted a price of Re 1 per Rs 10,000 per annum whereas HSBC AMC’s rate was Rs 0.36.
The CBT had approved the appointment of Standard Chartered Bank as custodian of securities of EPFO and Chandabhoy and Jassoobhoy of Mumbai as external concurrent auditor for the body.
The EPFO had appointed multiple fund managers for the first time in July, 2008, for earning better rate of return on deposits for its over five crore subscribers.
During the two-and-half-year tenure from September 17, 2008 to March 31, 2011, ICICI Pru had provided highest yield (return) of 8.72 per cent followed by HSBC AMC (8.64 per cent), SBI (8.61 per cent) and Reliance Capital (8.57 per cent) against the benchmark yield of 8.52 per cent.
Before July, 2008, SBI was the sole fund manager for the retirement fund body since its inception in 1952.
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