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Investing CPF savings: Low-cost portfolios are now within easy reach

There has largely been silence since the Lifetime Retirement Investment Scheme was announced in 2016. All its ingredients are now available in the CPFIS

FOR more than two decades, the idea of an institutional-style retirement investment scheme for Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings has provoked discussion and raised expectations.

For a while, it seemed that the vaunted Lifetime Retirement Investment Scheme (LRIS), as recommended by a CPF panel in 2016, could be the answer for those who wish to invest their CPF savings for a higher rate of return than the default interest rates.

The LRIS was to simplify choices for members by offering simple, low-cost lifecycle portfolios.

But on this front, there has mostly been silence, about seven years since the LRIS was announced. Since then, there has been a sea change in the retail investment environment....

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