Joydeep Sen SEBI, in its board meeting held on March 1, 2019, stated two changes in the valuation of securities in the portfolio of liquid funds, or for that matter…
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Budget 2019 and Beyond: A debt market perspective
Joydeep Sen The Interim Budget presented by the interim Finance Minister, in the interim of the quarter was the interim event of the current government’s final months in power. The…
Risk And Reward: How To Identify Risk In A Volatile Market
Joydeep Sen There are enough and more theories and opinions about what risk is and how to measure it. However, everybody may not find the theories easy to comprehend. Here…
DIE Another Day, Handhold Your Clients Now
Whenever there is an issue in the market, the natural tendency is to escape i.e. redeem from the troubled funds. However, not every exit decision is optimum. Let’s look at…
RBI Opens The Door; Time Will Tell How Far We Walk
The bounty has arrived, which the market was waiting for. Taking the popularly tracked parameter of 10-year maturity government security, it had touched 8.2 percent in September 2018 as there…
Opinion | Don’t Write Off Rating Agencies For One Failure
There are certain thankless jobs, like keeping wickets in cricket or keeping the goal in football. Unless you perform exceptionally, taking a regular catch or saving a routine attempt at…
Home loan interest rates: What external benchmark means for your floating rate loan
Joydeep Sen Let us see how the interest rate on your loan works. In a fixed rate loan, let’s say a fixed rate home loan, the rate of interest is fixed for…
Fixed Income: Should You Hold On To Debt Funds With Exposure to IL&FS?
By Joydeep Sen By now it is well known that multiple mutual funds with exposure to IL&FS or its group entities have fully written off their exposure. Consequently, the hit,…
2019 Looks Good For Bond Fund Investors
Joydeep Sen When it comes to investments, we tend to predict market movements. For bond investments, we take a view on interest rate movements. To be noted, in bonds or…
What Are Some Of The Challenges In Managing A Debt Portfolio?
There’s over-reliance on rating agencies India has one of the larger and more liquid bond markets in Asia. But compared to the size of outstanding bonds, trading is limited. Liquidity…
Opinion | Why RBI Should Change Its Repo Rate Stance
Apart from the signal rate i.e. repo rate of 6.5%, there is a policy rate stance of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which gives the future guidance. An easing stance, called ‘dovish’…
Corporate Bonds: You Can Pick Up Bonds From Primary Market
By Joydeep Sen Due to certain events over the last couple of months, yield levels, i.e., interest rates on corporate bonds have moved up. It started with the default of…