Companies bond to long end of the curve as GSec yields fallCompanies are returning to the bond market after a yield spike. Aditya Birla Capital raised a significant amount through 10-year bonds. Baj...
Life insurers pushing sales before start of new regimeLife insurers are pushing sales aggressively to lock in customers before the new surrender value norms take effect on October 1. These new ...
Benchmark Gsec yield eases on demand ahead of new LCR rulesIndia's 10-year benchmark yield declined to 6.932% as domestic banks showed interest following the RBI's plan to tighten liquidity coverage...
Companies pay more for debt fundraise as liquidity's tightOver the past year-and-a-half, as the Reserve Bank of India has raised interest rates and progressively drained the banking system of exces...
THINKING FIXED INCOMEKey for the investors is to align their investment criteria to fixed income portfolio characteristics while choosing fixed income funds to ...
Benchmark yield surges to two-year high on US cuesUS Treasury benchmark yields rose about 11 basis points to 1.63 percent when the local government bond market opened for trading this calen...
RBI again steps in to normalise liquidityThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken yet another baby step toward normalising liquidity in the banking system as it prepares to exit a...
Why credit growth hit a 59-yr low in FY21? AAA-rated papers were 46 bps cheaper than bank ratesAccording to analysis of the corporate bond yields, bank's MCLRs and GSecs between January 2020 and March 2021 by Care Ratings, AAA-rated c...
Arbitrageurs tap into GSec yield anomaly & how!Three 10-year sovereign papers, including the benchmark, are yielding spreads up to 49 basis points among themselves. That has created a wi...
After soaring last week, states' debt cost falls below 7%With 13 states collectively raising Rs 23,378 crore at the latest auction, 28 states and two Union territories have cumulatively raised Rs ...
High yields draw HNIs to long-dated GSecsBonds yielding more than 6.5% are now sought after as yields from short-term notes have collapsed to 3-3.5%.
In flight to safety, Bharat Bond ETF trumps other fixed-income productsThe Bharat Bond ETF consists of bonds issued by PSUs with the highest AAA credit rating.
DAS' STRAIGHT TALK: Op Twist to lower corporate bond yieldsOperation Twist is an instrument used to ensure better monetary policy transmission.
Bond market off to volatile start in new FY amid pricing concernsFIMMDA has given a revised Gsec valuation for Friday at Rs 102.15 on the benchmark government bond versus Rs 101.91, the actual closing pri...
Small savings schemes are currently offering better returns than bank FDsThe interest rate on PPF is almost 60 basis points higher than it should be and the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme offers 8.5%, instead of 8...
SDL limits expanding for FIIs; no big inflows expectedMutual funds do not foresee any immediate compression in yields pursuant to RBI expanding foreign portfolio investment limits in state deve...
- Long corporate bonds to outperform govt securities: Chaitanya Pande, ICICI Prudential MF
In an interview with ET Now, Chaitanya Pande, Head-Fixed Income, ICICI Prudential MF, speaks about the fixed income market. Excerpts: