Category: Bonds/Debt Investments

Debt instruments will not make you rich… All of us must have some debt investments. At least that is what ‘asset allocation’ gurus will make you believe, so well, let us believe it. 1. Debt instrument preserve your money: they… Read more

Misconceptions about debt funds Debt funds and bonds are very different. If you can lock in today into a PSU bond at 9% current yield for a 20 year period, it is an amazing saving instrument. I daresay no fund… Read more

what assets can you invest in to meet your debt requirement? Well there are many – and most of them you know about. Let us just enumerate them. We will see them in detail in . The list is as… Read more

Even though debt funds are the biggest contributors to the mutual fund corpus in India, there is surprisingly not much literature on debt funds. Let me start by clearing some misconceptions about debt funds: 1. Debt mutual funds  are EXACTLY… Read more

Continuing his new series of articles on equity investing, Mr. Bond draws an interesting observation from patters in 10 yr Sensex rolling returns and equity performance thereafter. In 98% of cases where the 10yr Sensex rolling return was less than… Read more

I had done an article saying ‘Fixed deposits or Debt funds?’ a few months back. Now I am asking a question again: Bonds or Bond fund? Recently there have been a spate of bond issues by PSUs and they all… Read more

The quick answer to this question is that a stripped bond is a bond that has had its main components broken up into a zero-coupon bond and a series of coupons. To help explain one, let’s first describe a bond…. Read more

Tax free bonds have emerged as highly popular investment option among investors due to the taxation benefit that they offer. These bonds, generally issued by Government backed entities, are exempt from taxation on the interest income received from such instruments… Read more

Section 71- Issue of Debentures Under Companies Act, 2013  The only section pertaining to the issue of debentures is section 71 (read with Rule 18 of Companies Share Capital and Debentures Rules,2014). I would like to share the some of important… Read more