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Are Arbitrage funds A Better Substitute For Liquid Funds?
Over the last one year, most debt funds have delivered suboptimal returns, particularly liquid funds and funds with long portfolio maturity largely due to market conditions. This has led many…
Buy Quality Bonds In Primary Issues And Hold Till Maturity
There are certain inherent advantages in the primary issuance of bonds for retail investors. Retail investors can participate in the bond market through two avenues. The first is through mutual…
Why Financial Planning Is Essential Early In Your Career
When you start earning after years of hard work, you taste the freedom to spend your own money, on things you want to. But this is the time you need to…
Bond Yields: Negative Bond Yelds Abroad Won’t Affect Your Portfolio
By Joydeep Sen Normally, bonds have positive yields i.e., you would expect a return for buying a bond. Negative yield means you have to actually pay for buying the bond….
Opinion | Bonds That Look More Attractive After The Budget
Most post-budget discussions on your investments are about the impact on the equity market, and the broad trends in the bond market. That apart, as a corollary of the budget,…
SEBI’s Consultation Paper Seeks To Strengthen Portfolio Manager Regulations
Market regulator SEBI released a consultation paper on Portfolio Managers regulations last Friday. It is good time for us to take a holistic view of it. A Portfolio Management Service…
Minimize Credit Risk In Debt Funds By Monitoring Heir Portfolio Composition
After several credit events over the past 10 months, starting with what happened at IL&FS in September 2018, debt fund investors are naturally a concerned lot. They are at a…
Which Category Of Debt Funds Remains Intact In The Current Turmoil?
Today, a major concern among debt fund investors is credit defaults. Typically, investors take additional risks – duration risk and credit risk to generate better than liquid funds returns. When…
Budget 2019: Buybacks May Not Be a Lucrative Option
By Joydeep Sen Budget 2019 India: There are various ways a company can reward shareholders. Payment of dividend is the most common method. The other methods are issuance of bonus…
Viewpoint | Needed: Regulatory clarity on stressed debt taken over by fund houses from schemes
In our previous article, we had discussed about AMCs (asset management companies) buying out debt from their schemes (i.e. funds) in extreme situations. From the perspective of market regulator SEBI’s regulations,…
Opinion | Rating Agencies: What Is The Umpire’s Verdict?
Whenever there is a doubt about a player’s action, people look towards the umpire. Now that there are doubts about rating agencies, we will look at what capital markets regulator…