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Yes. It is a necessity
by Nikhil Sapre on Feb 14, 2007 03:30 PM

India seems to be on a fast track growth for next 10 years at least. So stock markets will keep booming. It is the right time may be we are already a bit late in entering stock market. Lets not delay it any longer.
Over and above this, Mutual Fund Managers are very experienced in maximizing returns and minimizing risks. I think Govt should start investing 5% of PF corpus in to stocks through some good Fund managers like UTI, Fidelity, SBI Magnum and Reliance Mutual Fund.
This percentage can be increated to 25% over next 5 years based on the experience in initial years and then kept constant.
This seems to be the only way to beat inflation.
Also when such a large corpus will be there in stock market, it will automatically reduce dependence of our markets on FII.
Automatically this will serve as balanced fund as 75% of corpus will stay safe in debt instruments, govt securities etc while 25% will be in a bit risky but high return earning market.

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Should 5% PF be put in stocks?