India Finance Research Brief: Debt mutual funds: interest-rate and credit risk

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Educational explainer: Debt mutual funds: interest-rate and credit risk

Debt funds hold bonds, government securities and money-market instruments. Their NAV moves with interest rates and with the credit quality of the holdings.

What to check:

• Duration: longer-duration funds move more when interest rates change.
• Credit quality: lower-rated papers pay more but can default.
• The scheme's potential risk class matrix, which SEBI requires funds to disclose.
• Taxation of debt funds changed in recent years; verify the current rules.

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Sources and scope

• AMFI investor corner
• SEBI scheme categorisation circular
• SEBI RSS feed
• RBI press-release RSS feed
• Google Trends India

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