Articles in “Debt Funds” category
12 articles.
2026 (12)
- Corporate bond mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on corporate bond mutual funds in India: SEBI definition (80% in AA+ and above rated bonds), credit quality screen, duration flexibility, …
- Credit quality bucketisation in debt mutual funds
Credit quality bucketisation is the distribution of a debt mutual fund's portfolio across rating categories, AAA, AA, A, BBB, and below, that determines the …
- Credit risk mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on credit risk mutual funds in India: SEBI definition (65% in below-AA rated bonds), accrual strategy, Franklin Templeton 2020 winding-up …
- Dynamic bond mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on dynamic bond mutual funds in India: SEBI definition allowing any duration and credit mix, active management across yield curve, …
- Gilt mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on gilt mutual funds in India: SEBI definition (80% in government securities across maturities), interest rate risk, RBI monetary policy …
- Liquid mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on liquid mutual funds in India: SEBI definition (debt instruments maturing up to 91 days), graded exit load, instant redemption, …
- Macaulay duration in debt mutual funds
Macaulay duration is the weighted average time to receive all cash flows from a bond, measured in years, where the weights are the present values of each cash …
- Modified duration in debt mutual funds
Modified duration measures the price sensitivity of a bond or a debt mutual fund's portfolio to a 1 percentage point change in interest rates. A higher modified …
- Overnight mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on overnight mutual funds in India: SEBI definition (overnight maturity instruments only), near-zero credit and duration risk, TREPS and …
- Short-duration mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on short-duration mutual funds in India: SEBI Macaulay duration 1 to 3 year rule, credit quality flexibility, return expectation, …
- Ultra-short-duration mutual fund
Encyclopedic reference on ultra-short-duration mutual funds in India: SEBI Macaulay duration 3 to 6 months rule, comparison with liquid and low-duration funds, …
- Yield to maturity for debt mutual funds
Yield to maturity (YTM) of a debt mutual fund is the weighted average yield of all bonds in the portfolio, representing the expected pre-expense annualised …