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Government security, or g-secs, come with very little to negligible credit risk. But some g-secs are liquid, mostly the 10-year benchmark. However, long-term government bonds are generally bought by institutional investors, not so much by individual investors. Here’s a look at its prospects.
Trading volumes in corporate bonds are a sliver of what is witnessed in the government bond market even today. Fintech platforms like IndiaBonds are trying to change this by bringing in more retail participation
Latest data published by the Clearing Corporation of India, which hosts the trading platform for government bonds, showed transactions in Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities, or STRIPS, surged over three-fold in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
With nobody on either side of the culture wars taking prisoners, and the political campaigns heating up, it will be hard for reason to prevail.
Investors can purchase a government bond on our platform, from two months tenure, all the way up to 39-year tenure, says Varun Sridhar, CEO, Paytm Money