With effect from 01.04.2020, NRIs can invest in Government of India (GOI) Bonds without any ceiling limit in certain specific instruments. Here is how NRIs can invest in Government of India Bonds (aka G-secs or gilts).
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The RBI 7.75% bonds (2018) have been replaced by RBI Floating Rate Savings Bonds 2020 according to a Finance Ministry announcement. We look at its features and discuss who should buy it and when.
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Several banks offer high-yielding perpetual bonds. In this article, we discuss the basics of a perpetual bond and what investors need to know before buying them.
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The RBI has announced the cessation of its 7.75 per cent Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2018 with effect from the end of business day, May 28th 2020. Where should one invest now?
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A comparison between tax-free bonds that are available in the secondary market and RBI 7.75% bonds that can be obtained in the primary market. Which is better and how demand for tax-free bonds have quickly made them less attractive.
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We are living in a time where half a data point is enough to announce trends, patterns prophecies. Every week one guy says the markets are going to tank and another says it will do well. The latest such development is the so-called inversion of the US bond yield curve and its association with the…
Continue reading →Here is why you should not buy G-secs (Government Securities) from retail platforms like Zerodha and NSE goBID and keep it simple with fixed deposits or debt mutual funds. Even if you wish to buy G-secs at the very least give several months for the platforms and the process to evolve before committing money. So…
Continue reading →The yield curve is a plot of current yields of bonds from the same type of issuer versus their respective maturities. Observing the bond yield curve is a way to find out what is going on with our economy. In this post, I discuss how one can do this some examples. Before we begin, my book…
Continue reading →The government announced the interest rates for small saving schemes yesterday and surprising or should I say unsurprisingly, the interest rates of many schemes, especially the long-term ones like PPF and Sukanya Samriddhi are still too high! Why is the government not sticking to policy? If you are surprised by the title in spite of…
Continue reading →Tracking gold-price movements in terms of USD and INR is a simple, but intuitive way to understand the strength of our economy. Here are some observations from staring at the historical gold price movement in USD and INR. The domestic price of gold, that is INR is the equivalent price in USD times the exchange rate….
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