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Prime Review: TN Power Finance and Infrastructure Fixed Deposit

Aarati Krishnan / Bonds & Deposits, Premium, Research Reports / September 6, 2022

When interest rates on bank deposits hit rock-bottom in the last few years, the fixed deposit (FD) programme from Tamil Nadu Power Finance and Infrastructure Corporation (TNPFIC) turned quite a hit. This NBFC owned by the Tamil Nadu Government offers high interest rates of 7-8% on FDs and has a friendly online interface, making it very popular with fixed income seekers and seniors. We have received a number of queries from many of you, about this deposit.

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Prime Strategy: Time to lock into high yields and how

Aarati Krishnan / Bonds & Deposits, Premium, Research Reports / July 14, 2022

Eighteen months ago, it would have been difficult to imagine that there would be a time when debt investors in India would be spoilt for choice. But the sharp rise in market interest rates in India in the past year or so, has led to this happy situation. Between December 2020 and now, yields on

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How to ride the interest rate upcycle

Aarati Krishnan / Bonds & Deposits, Markets, Premium, Research Reports / April 21, 2022

Indian debt investors have been handed a raw deal in the last three years. Though inflation has been rising and market interest rates edging up, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) were doing their level-best to keep a lid on interest rates, to protect borrowers in a Covid-hit economy.

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Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?

Vidya Bala / Mutual funds & ETFs, Strategies / November 11, 2021

Prime Strategy: How to invest in debt funds now?
If you had invested in an ultra-short debt fund like Axis Treasury Advantage 3 years ago, your returns would be 7.3% CAGR now. Not bad at all by today’s standards, right? If you invested in the same fund 2 years ago in November 2019, your returns would be 6% – still not terrible. But what if you had invested in this fund just a year ago?

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