Understanding Bond Market Jargons: A Guide to Key Terms and Ratios
Investing in bonds can be a great way to earn fixed returns and diversify your portfolio. However, navigating through the bond market can be...
Investing in Bonds: The Need of the Hour
In these rapidly changing times, the need for stability and less volatile investment options is becoming increasingly important. One such investment option that provides...
Taxation of Bonds in India
In this new age, Bonds have emerged as an investment tool for people to curb their losses and earn fixed income on their investments....
Municipal Bonds:- Understanding the Risks & Rewards.
In India, there are three levels of governance system: the central, the state, and the municipal. The third tier of this chain consists of...
Short-Term Bonds Are Expected to Extend Losses Amid Hawkish RBI Predictions
What are short-term bonds? Short-term bonds are also called “money market” instruments because they are usually traded much like money in a savings account....
DEBT OR EQUITY? OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH!
Debt vs. Equity: Understanding the Difference
Which one are you: a bondholder or a shareholder? A risk averse investor or a risk taker? To be...
Why do companies issue bonds?
Every corporation requires money to fund an acquisition, seek and produce a new product, or explore new markets. Some can do it without borrowing...
WHAT ARE G-SEC or GILT EDGED SECURITIES ?
Government Securities: Safest and Diversified Investments
We often ask ourselves, "which is the safest investment option?" Or "which investment vehicle would provide me a guaranteed...
54EC BONDS AND ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!
Tax Planning and Capital Gains Exemption: Exploring Financial Instruments
With just over a few months left in the current tax year, many of us would...
Settlement of a Bond Trade
Whose grandmother hasn’t talking longingly about the “Good old days”? Everything about the good old days was marvelous. Prices of food and clothing were...
Derivatives. Making money (Leverage)
There are broadly 4 types of players in the financial markets.
Arbitrageurs
Traders
Hedgers
Speculators
We have visited some strategies used for hedging – for...
Bank FDs vs Nothing Safer
One of the greatest attraction of investors towards bank fixed deposits is the safety they perceive a FD provides.
Public Provident Fund (PPF)
There is...