National Pension System (NPS) is a ‘retirement savings scheme’ which anyone can use to build retirement corpus. Yes, NPS is a corpus builder. In itself, NPS cannot generate income after retirement. Why I’m highlighting this fact? Because as an investor we must be aware that only NPS-investing will take us through. More needs to be…
What is annuity? It is an investment product for retired people. Only after retirement, a person can get the benefits of annuity. Annuity is purchased to generate guaranteed regular income. The frequency of income generated by annuity can be monthly, quarterly, semi annually or annually (depending on selection). Is annuity a life insurance? Annuity is…
Almost all salaried people in India contributes to EPF scheme to build a retirement corpus. But NPS (National Pension System) did not had this kind of penetration. In 2009, GOI made NPS available for ‘all citizens’ of India. Earlier it was available only for the government employees. Today we know that NPS can build a…
How difficult it was for people to understand the EPF withdrawal process? In good old days, EPF withdrawal process was known only to the employer. Hence it was not uncommon to find ex-employees being harassed by the employers for their EPF withdrawals. But the cases of harassment was a smaller problem. The bigger issue was…
