RBI has made it easier for small investors to buy government bonds. Find out if you should buy gilts directly or take the mutual fund route.

In the one year to May 16, gold funds provided 8.49% return on average, beating equity schemes that mostly saw erosion in value during this...

With falling interest rates, long-term gilts may generate good returns. Here’s how you should invest in them.

Returns from the debt funds in the mutual fund industry are likely to be subdued due to the hardening bond yields following the rupee plung...

Mutual fund managers have reduced the duration or average maturity of holding bonds by nearly half to 4.5 from 8.25 years in the beginning ...

IDBI MF has an average assets under management of around Rs 5,412 crore by the end of Sept quarter.

In last one year ended Dec 6, medium and long term gilt funds as a category has given 10.21 pc returns, says an MF tracking entity.

The new fund offer will open for subscription on December 5 and close on December 17. The scheme will reopen for subscription from December...

Government securities, or gilts, are more secure than corporate bonds and are likely to perform well when interest rates fall.

In A move aimed at ensuring stability of bond house in times of volatile interest rates, RBI has hiked the capital requirements for primary...

The government needs to undertake adequate reforms and allow the primary dealers to be the market makers in the Indian corporate bond marke...

Recognising the potential in the broking space, state-run Canara Bank is mulling a foray in the sector while State Bank of India has plans ...

IDBI Bank is planning to re-enter the mutual fund business, three years after it sold its stake in the earlier asset management company (AM...

IDBI Ltd on Thursday announced the launch of IDBI Gilts Ltd as its wholly-owned primary dealer (PD) subsidiary.