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Getting a part of the retirement savings organization’s sizeable corpus could help the fund house mount a serious challenge for the No.3 spot on the MF leaderboard.

Nippon India Mutual Fund is about to hit the jackpot.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation is set to award it—along with ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund—a contract allowing investment of the incremental flows into its massive retirement corpus in exchange traded funds, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
“The names have been finalized by the EPFO. The formal letters are expected to be issued anytime soon,” says one of three people mentioned above, all of whom requested anonymity.
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