A Practical Guide on Investing in Debt Funds
The emergence of the pandemic in 2020 proved to be extremely dramatic, if not chaotic, for the debt markets. It all started when Franklin Templeton closed six yield-oriented debt mutual funds. Investors were risk-apprehensive as a result of this, resulting in enormous withdrawals from credit risk funds. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) then injected liquidity and aggressively lowered interest rates to counteract the pandemiccaused slowdown, and long-duration and gilt funds revelled in the festivities. Rising bond rates have recently resulted in mark-to-market losses in Debt Funds.