Demystifying Day Count Conventions in Fixed Income Markets

A seasoned HNI client once questioned why their return on a corporate debt investment in a Specialized Investment Fund strategy appeared slightly different from the yield they calculated manually. The discrepancy stemmed...

Navigating Settlement Mechanics: Beyond the Clean Price

A common situation for a mutual fund distributor arises when a high-net-worth client reviews their contract note for a bond purchase and questions the variance between the quoted market price and the actual debit amount....

Understanding Interest Rate Risk: Beyond the Coupon Yield

Consider a client who allocated a significant portion of their corpus to a long-duration debt mutual fund, anticipating steady returns. When the Reserve Bank of India announced a surprise hike in the repo rate, the...