Debt Fund

Debt is a heavy burden, both emotionally and financially. It can limit your ability to save, invest, and achieve your long-term goals. Fortunately, there are several effective strategies you can employ to reduce your debt and regain control of your finances.

Financing platform Velocity launches Rs 300 crore debt fund to back B2B SaaS firms

Velocity plans to double its e-commerce disbursements to Rs 800 crore and allocate an additional Rs 500 crore to new sectors including B2B SaaS.

Inflows into debt funds unhurt, financialisation of savings to chart a steady course: Fisdom CEO

As investor awareness grows, capital markets will continue to attract capital in all forms. Financialisation of savings is a trend that will likely continue over the next 20-30 years, says Subramanya SV

Live: Debt Mutual Funds Lose LTCG Taxation Benefit; Decoding The Impact | Finance Bill 2023

In a major blow, a proposal to remove long-term tax benefits on debt mutual fund investments was passed in the Parliament as part of amendments to the Finance Bill. This applies to the investments made on or after April 1, 2023. The indexation advantage of debt MFs will be lost. Investments in bonds, gold, and international funds have an indexation advantage. Gains on debt funds, gold funds, and international funds held for more than 3 years are currently taxed at 20% with indexation. Watch Latha Venkatesh and Nandita Khemka discuss the Debt MF Amendment Proposal and its implications.

Anicut Capital gets SEBI nod for Rs 1,500-crore debt fund

It plans to launch the fund in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2022-23 and announce the first close by the end of the same quarter, the company said on November 30

Moody's withdraws Kalyan Jewellers stable rating after fundraise delay, stock up

In April, the company was planning to raise around $200 million through its subsidiary to refinance old debt

MC30 Review | A consistent performer that's low on risks, yet high on returns

Due to low yields, long-duration funds, including government securities’ funds and long duration funds lost 3.5 percent and 10 percent, respectively, over the last six months

This debt fund invests in the safest bonds, but delivers healthy returns

Over the last three years, the fund has invested only in the highest rated AAA debt instruments issued by banks and PSUs

The irrelevance of Kotak Mahindra mutual fund’s FMP ban

This six-month ban on FMP issuance will have little impact on Kotak Mahindra AMC’s business in the near term. SEBI wanted to - and did- send out a strong message to all AMCs that it will not let such events go unnoticed or unpunished. But do investors need FMPs at all?

Sebi proposes swing pricing mechanism for debt mutual funds

Swing pricing should be made applicable to all unitholders with an exemption for redemptions up to Rs 2 lakh for all unitholders and up to Rs 5 lakh for senior citizens at a mutual fund level.

SC asks Franklin Templeton to return money to unitholders from cash-positive schemes

Cash to be returned in 20 days. SBI Mutual Fund will distribute the money, instead of Franklin Templeton

Long-term returns of gold and fixed income should be similar: Invesco MF

Our debt portfolios are focused on bonds with high credit rating

RBI policy review: Why pausing rates does not mean inaction

There may be room for further rate cuts, only that they may happen at a later date

Status quo on rates: Stay put with shorter-tenure debt funds

As interest rates are likely to decline later, it’s best to retain your debt funds

Dividend transfer plan: An easy way to invest payouts from a debt fund

Make sure you choose a scheme that invests in high-quality assets

Franklin Templeton crisis: Is Gujarat HC’s stay on voting in investors’ interest?

The petitioners have sought to set aside the fund house’s decision of winding up the schemes

Franklin Templeton's debt funds hit as Essel Infra defaults on NCDs

These NCDs are currently valued at Rs 92 crore in the debt funds' portfolios

PPF: Still an attractive investment despite the sharp rate cut

Having a tax-free status and being practically risk-free, the PPF continues to be a wonderful debt product

Axis All Seasons NFO: Wait for a track record before investing

The scheme would invest in bond funds offered by many asset management companies and across categories

The Bharat Bond ETF is not without risks

Investors are going gaga over the Bharat Bond ETF, whose NFO has opened. But is it as attractive an instrument as it is made out to be?

Withdrawing money from mutual funds: SWP works better than the dividend option

The way an SIP lets you invest in a fund as per your cash flow, an SWP lets you withdraw as per your cash flow requirements.

Continuing with SIPs in falling markets critical for solid long-term returns

The key reason for making systematic investment in equities is rupee-cost averaging—you invest every month, at every price, thereby averaging your investment cost over the long term

Bond ETFs: A cost-effective way for investors to take debt-market exposure

Investors today are aware of debt mutual funds, but ETFs and specifically bond ETFs are yet to gain traction in India.