Safeguarding Your Investments with State Government Bonds
The high risk of market volatility compares said the US returned friend, to an “E-Ticket” ride at Disney World. E, on a 5-grade starting...
Bond STRIPS: Customizing Investments for Your Financial Goals
Investments have a goal. The broadest investment objective, irrespective of the type of investment or asset class used, is the creation of wealth. Postponement...
Bond Market Essentials: A-Z Glossary for Traders
Understanding Bond Trader's Lingo
Just to ensure that we are speaking the same language, rather than the “Greek and Latin” that my Physics Professor accused...
Understanding Bond Markets: The Role of Day Count Conventions
Peeking into the bond market we have found a few quirky terminology and interesting practices. As the market has developed it has grown some...
Bond Market Price Dynamics: Clean and Dirty Prices
The debt market, both at a global and India level is second only to the foreign currency market in size and in India is...
Deep Discount Bonds vs. Zero Coupon Bonds Explained
In 1992 investors were drawn to exciting advertising by Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), a Central Government promoted Development Financial Institution, calling for...
Tier 2 Bank Bonds: Balancing Risk and Rewards
Understanding Bank Debentures and Deposit Guarantee
A debenture issued by a bank, rather than a corporate could be an easy way to describe the next...
Demystifying the Yield Curve: Market Insights
Understanding the Yield Curve
An inverted yield curve indicating a severe market crash seems to be a forgotten news item recently. But it did create...
Yield to Maturity: The Investor’s Roadmap to Bond Profitability
The bond investor actually has a focus on the ultimate returns by a bond (the market treats those who require the regular cash payouts...
Cracking Bond Risk: The Magic of Modified Duration
Mutual fund factsheets provide a good amount of data. Some of the material given is very useful, especially that related to fixed-income funds. One...
Maturity and duration – how they impact our investments!
Risk and return drive our investment goals. Of course, greed and fear are the psychological factors that influence us, but we will not visit...
The Rule of 72: A Simple Tool for Investment Planning
Besides the smart and lazy way of doubling money, we have the goal of generating an increase in our capital. And a quick, easy...
