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The two new target maturity index funds will invest in a mix of Indian government bonds and state development loans

Tata CRISIL-IBX GILT Index – April 2026 Index Fund, an open-ended target maturity index fund, will invest in CRISIL-IBX Gilt Index maturing in 2026

The budgetary exercise cannot be meaningful unless it addresses the primary concerns in an economy.

Ramped up borrowings for FY23 budget gets a thumbs down.

With the cost of borrowing rising in the past few months, corporates are gradually returning to banks, bankers said. This is especially true for lower-rated borrowers who have to pay more to borrow from the markets than their better-rated counterparts.

Debt mutual fund investors face credit risk, liquidity risk and interest rate risk in their portfolio. The first two have gone into the backburner for now.

The Monetary Policy Committee decided to stick to the objective of reviving growth over reacting to inflation as its approach is to gradually tackle the prospects of impacting output rather than a `sledge hammer approach that would kill the nascent recovery.

The lockdowns this time around did allow more economic activity and were of shorter periods compared with last time when the duration was very long.

RBI has kept the yield on the 10-year on a tight leash in view of the large Government borrowing programme amid the pandemic

The weakness in growth amidst Covid-led lockdowns prompted MPC to acknowledge that the current situation warranted “policy support from all sides – fiscal, monetary and sectoral”.