In many ways, bonds are more complex than stocks. Investors use a host of different metrics to evaluate bond investments, and one involves a concept known as duration, which helps an investor ...

Choosing debt funds in a rising interest rate environment is not easy, as rising rates lead to declines in bond prices. Make the wrong choice of duration and you can easily face capital erosion on ...

A bond’s price is affected by various factors like credit quality of the issuer, callability of the bond, coupon rate, and maturity. Duration, in effect, takes into account all these factors while ...

All mutual fund (MF) schemes, in debt or in the equity category, carry risk. But how can one measure a scheme’s risk to see if it matches with one’s expectations? Investors should keep in mind that ...

A recent action by RBI on the interest rates has caused havoc in the debt market. There are funds which has less impacted and some are more. From a layman investors view selecting a debt fund becomes ...

calculates and returns a scalar containing the modified duration of a non-contingent cash-flow. The Duration function returns the modified duration of a non-contingent cash-flow as a scalar. In other ...

A recent action by RBI on the interest rates has caused havoc in the debt market. There are funds which has less impacted and some are more. From a layman investors view selecting a debt fund becomes ...

The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from ...