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Sept 20, Colombo: Sujeewa Senasinghe, a parliamentarian of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) today lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption against the investment of Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees' Trust Fund
Last week’s weekly Treasury (T) Bill auction saw yields continuing with their upward ascent, with the weighted average yields (WAYs) for 182 and 364 day T Bills rising by seven and four basis points (bps) to 13.02% and 13.27% respectively. However the WAY for the 91 day T Bill stagnated at the 11.36% level, which ...
Aug 15, Colombo: A private sector trade union in Sri Lanka is considering initiating legal action to call for an investigation into the investments made using monies from the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).
Aug 12, Colombo: The private sector trade union in Sri Lanka, the Inter Company Employees' Union (ICEU) says the government is once again attempting to introduce a private sector pension scheme to pilfer the monies in the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).
Aug 10, Colombo: Attorney General of Sri Lanka has informed the Supreme Court yesterday that the opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera has not deposited the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) monies for the journalists and other staff of the website office
Aug 05, Colombo: Several trade unions in Sri Lanka are to meet tomorrow to decide on the action to be taken against the alleged misuse of Employment Provident Fund (EPF) monies.
Jun 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) says that the private sector pension fund, the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) has lost over Rs. 12 billion in its investments in the Colombo Stock Exchange.
Jun 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka's private sector retirement instrument, the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) has welcomed the clarification made by Standard and Poor's (S&P) today that there was no information of any specific incidences occurring of a potential conflict of interest due to the Central
Hambantota is claimed to be an ‘emerging hub’ of various sorts – shipping, aviation, tourism, industrialisation, cultural and international sports of various kinds. An unfortunate feature appears to be that in recent years it is emerging to be an epicentre of domestic political crime. A harbinger to this regrettable development was on the eve of ...
Jun 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has asked the government to disclose the present position of investments made by the country's private sector retirement funds, Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF).
Jun 21, Colombo: Responding to a statement made by the rating agency Standard & Poor on the country's private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), the Central Bank Wednesday said that there is no conflict of interest as a result of the EPF investing in shares of banks.
, Employees Provident Fund (EPF).
Jun 12, Colombo: A parliamentary committee appointed by the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party to inquire into the widespread allegations of irregularities in managing the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), is to hand over its report next week
“The demoralising, destructive character of the patriotic degeneracy….” Sebastian Haffner (Germany: Jekyll and Hyde) By Tisaranee Gunasekara It was the Oxford Debacle all over again. The events were drearily predicable. Sri Lanka, like every Commonwealth nation, received an invitation for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II. President Rajapaksa, unlike most Commonwealth leaders,...
Sri Lanka’s Employees’ Provident Fund which is the largest private pension fund in the country once again reiterated that it has diligently followed all internal guidelines in relation to the assessment, analysis and investment in the Stock market. It also says the investments it had made in the stock market had the approval of the Investment ...
Jun 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) has appointed a committee to study and make proposals on the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), monies that have been lost due to bad investments in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE).
The Central Bank has said that the Employees Provident Fund is safe and it is not exposed to any danger. Superintendent of EPF of the Central Bank Kalyani Gunatllake stressed that the propaganda, being spread by certain opposition groups is baseless. Certain political groups in the opposition
May 29, Colombo: A private sector trade union in Sri Lanka is to lodge a complaint today with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption calling for an inquiry into the investing of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) monies in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE).
the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). Ceylon Grain Elevators PLC, Laugfs Gas PLC ...
May 21, Colombo: The Employees' Provident Fund Department of Sri Lanka's Central Bank today rejected the allegations of fraud involving the retirement fund ,Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) made by an opposition legislator in the parliament recently.
Sri Lanka’s largest retirement fund, the EPF today blamed an opposition MP for trying to tarnish its reputation and also trying to destabilize the economy through such a strategy. However the EPF did not name the Opposition MP. Issuing a statement, the EPF rejects the accusation
The bourse breathed a sigh of relief at Friday’s trading on the knowledge that sanctions, at least in the immediate future will not be imposed on the island despite Thursday’s Human Rights (HR) resolution against Sri Lanka at Geneva which resulted in it returning a higher Rs. 926.9 million turnover on Friday compared to low ...
Avurudhu Rupee Commitments Bear on Exporters The exchange rate (ER) held at the Rs. 130 levels to the US dollar ($) at Wednesday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s trading as exporters began encashing their $ proceeds to meet their local commitments, a market source told this reporter. “In the event they persisted in holding on to their ...
The Employees Provident Fund gets a profit of 800 million rupees. The Employees Provident Fund which possessed 71 million shares of conglomerate John Keells Holdings had been sold at 194 rupees per share, bringing a capital gain to the Fund. These shares have been purchased by Malaysia’s Khazana Nasional Berhard, a sovereign wealth Fund. ...
Jan 26, Colombo: A legislator of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) has accused the government of using the monies from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), country's major retirement fund for the employees in the corporate and private sector, to carry out development
Jan 18, Colombo: The Sri Lankan parliament today passed an amendment bill that would affect the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), country's major retirement fund for the employees in the corporate and private sector.
‘A ruler with a depleted treasury eats into the very vitality of the citizens and the country. A ruler, who impoverishes his own people or angers them by unjust exactions will also lose their loyalty Impoverishment, greed and dissatisfaction are engendered among the subjects, when the ruler among other things (i) fails to give what ought ...
Jan 15, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) have expressed concerns over the proposed amendments to the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Act.
Srilankamirror - UNP MP Dr. Harsha de Silva says the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) would be summoned before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in parliament to explain its accounts. He told Sri Lanka Mirror that the EPF has failed to submit the audited reports for 2010
Last week there were more stories making the rounds on contemplated decisions made outside the cabinet meeting than decisions made inside. Of course, the usual briefing on cabinet decisions were spelled out, Thursday afternoon. For a regime that still wants to boast it has popular support, comparing itself to an opposition fractured and quarrelling red and green, it is ...