There is an uproar in the Indian investing community over the collapsing of the long- and short-term tax status of debt funds, removing the indexation benefit from financial year 2023-24 and the manner in which it was pushed through. There is an uproar in the Indian investing community over the collapsing of the long-...
The Franklin Templeton (FT) story gets worse every few weeks. Reena Zachariah reports in The Economic Times that the fund house is trying to make a domestic capital market regulatory issue into a foreign policy issue for India. She reports that the global and Indian senior management of the fund house has reached out to the India’s...
Retail investors are the last to know when things go wrong with their money. This is especially true of difficult-to-value-and-trade (in India) financial products such as bonds. The story gets even more complicated on how to treat bonds that behave like (or worse than) equity – for example AT1 bonds. AT1 bonds are issued by...
In March 2020 we understood risk a little better in both equity and debt mutual funds. Better returns have been one of the reasons that investors released the safety belt of the fixed deposit to ride market-linked returns in both equity and debt. But higher returns and liquidity come with a greater risk. Investors need...
It is about getting the rules of the game right. Sebi has done so in there equity part of the market and not the debt. Therefore we see different behaviours in the two markets.
How SEBI, RBI, banks and AMCs worked together the weekend of 25 and 26 April 2020 to bring liquidity into the market
Templeton froze 6 of its debt funds causing the entire debt fund market to go into shock. What happened and how it affects you
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Credit rating agencies in India will now have skin in the game. Their ratings will have to work going forward. This is a global first.