Retirement goals, Dec. 15 -- If you are planning to invest in the National Pension System (NPS), you could choose a pension fund manager (PFM) of your choice. There are 10 such PFMs to choose from.

Here we list out the past three years' returns on equity (Tier I) assets delivered by them. All these pension fund managers have reported past returns in the range of 13 to 16% per annum on their equity investments.

The highest returns were delivered by Kotak Mahindra Pension Fund, Tata Pension Fund Management, and UTI Pension Fund, as shown in the table below.

(Source: npstrust.org.in; returns as of 12 December)

As the table above shows, the lowest returns (in the past three years) were delivered by SBI Pension Fund and Axis Pension Fund....