The new mutual fund categories notified by SEBI on 6 October 2017, to which the AMCs submitted their restructuring proposals by 15 December 2017, is now under the process of…
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Investment Tips: How Individuals Can Buy Public Issue Of Bonds
The bond market in India is essentially wholesale, where you need a certain minimum amount to participate. There may be exceptions like tax-free PSU bonds listed at the capital market…
AT1 Perpetual Bonds Of Banks In Question
Over the past few years, perpetual bonds issued by banks as part of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) requirements under Basel III norms, have caught the fancy of institutional investors (mutual…
SIP In Debt Funds: An Idea Worth Exploring
For the past two to three quarters, the debt market has been more volatile than equity, but for the recent equity market correction in February. We are all familiar with…
The Problem With Reserve Bank’s Dual Role
SYNOPSISOn one hand, RBI is the regulator of the banking system and on the other hand it is the merchant banker of the sizable g-sec issuance programme. The bond market…
Recency Bias: More Relevant In Today’s Context
In behavioral finance, there is a concept of recency bias, which means a preference for, or expectation of, what happened in the recent past to re-occur, rather than expecting what…
What Does Budget 2018 Hold For Fixed Income Investors?
The government securities (Gsec) market, the first to react to news and events in the bond market, has given a thumbs down to the Union Budget 2018. The (new) 10-year…
How Do Stock And Bond Markets Talk About Each Other
In this articlepublished earlier, we discussed that both the markets, equity and debt, look stretched on valuations. At that point of time, the yield on the 10-year government security was approx 6.5%…
With Bond Yields Going North, What Should You Do?
Recommend short term bond funds to your clients. Over the last six months, the debt market has been quite volatile. There are many reasons for this volatility – chances of…
How To Sell Debt Funds When Equity Is Booming
Given the rally in the equity markets, everyone is gung ho on equity. In fact, in the past three years, equity funds have delivered superior returns over other asset classes…
Mutual Funds: What Should Investors In Dynamic Bond Funds Do? Find Out The Way Forward
There is a case for some further policy rate easing in the Oct 4 RBI Policy review, driven by real positive interest rates, inflation being within target and GDP growth…
Long Term Capital Gains Tax On Fixed Income: How To Calculate Indexation Benefit
Joydeep Sen In the context of taxation of fixed income mutual funds, it is known that tax efficiency is generated over a holding period of three years. The investment in…