IDFC Floating Rate Fund NFO: Betting on rate-cycle turnaround Maulik Madhu BL Research Bureau | Updated on February 13, 2021 Similar schemes have generated one- and three-year rolling returns of 6.5-8.0% and 6.4-8.2% IDFC Mutual Fund recently launched its Floating Rate Fund. The new fund offer closes on February 16. Such funds must invest at least 65 per cent of their assets under management (AUM) in floating-rate debt securities. The rest can be in debt and money-market instruments other than floating-rate ones. Given the paucity of floating-rate bonds in the market, floating-rate funds (or floater funds) invest in a mix of floating-rate debt instruments and fixed-rate debt papers converted into floating-rate ones using interest-rate swaps (IRS).