The first auction of Inflation Indexed Bonds has gone through successfully with the discovery of the yield at 1.44%. Remember, that while this sounds small, ...
This is a guest post by Dheeraj Singh.Dheeraj is a former fund manager for many years specializing in fixed income. Used to head fixed income at IL&FS ...
RBI held a teleconference for Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIBs) where they clarified a few points. In summary: IIBs will work according to the way I mentioned it ...
We’ve discussed how Inflation Indexed Bonds might work in India, and like in the US, the difference in the yields between the two is likely to be the ...
Bond market volumes have gone absolutely nuts. Yesterday, the official figure was 123,000 cr. in the government bond market, the NDS-OM. Note: you and I ...
This is a guest post by Karthik Shashidhar, who’s both a good friend and a great quant and data guy. He writes in on a recent IRDA directive. Earlier ...
(This is a story via Dheeraj Singh) Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. (DCHL), the owner of the Deccan Chargers IPL team (and the newspaper business, the Odyssey ...
Fixed Maturity Plans (FMPs) are not spoken about much now, but if you’re looking at getting reasonable tax free returns, consider this: FMPs invest, ...
The recent issue of tax-free bonds – that is, the interest is tax free – by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has listed on the NSE. There ...
When you invest in a fixed deposit, the interest you receive is taxed as income. At the highest tax bracket, you pay 30% on that interest. That means a bank FD ...
