India Fixed Income Data Bank
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This
is a data bank related to fixed income products in India. The topics covered here are: Debt mutual funds including liquid mutual funds, hybrid mutual funds, sovereign gold bonds (SGBs), retirement schemes, Government of India's small savings schemes (Post Office schemes) like, PPF, NSC, SCSS, SSY and others, bank fixed deposits, corporate bonds and others.
Sources of information for the data bank and India-based Fintech apps for fixed income products are given at the end of the blog.
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This is a typical list of topics:
Bank fixed deposits
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Corporate bonds
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Debt mutual funds
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Hybrid funds
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Inflation indexed bonds (IIBs)
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Liquid mutual funds
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Gilt funds
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National Savings Certificate (NSC)
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Public Provident Fund (PPF)
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Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS)
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Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY)
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Small savings schemes
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The
author has over the years written various blogs on fixed income / debt financial products, including debt mutual funds, gilt funds, liquid mutual funds, floating rate bonds, small savings schemes, Public Provident Fund (PPF) and so on.
The blog will be updated periodically with new data exhibits and charts. Newer updates will be at the top. This will enable readers to access all the related data at one place.
Brief
notes and relevant blog weblinks, if any, will be added along with the
data. You can click on the data exhibits for a better view.
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Update 02Jul2024: Charts 1 and 2:
FRSB, 2020 (T): Yesterday, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notified interest rate on Floating Rate Savings Bonds, 2020 (Taxable) for the half year ending 31Dec2024. (blog dated 05May2023).
The coupon / interest rates of these bonds are reset every half-year on January 1st and July 1st of every year and are linked, with a positive spread of 35 basis points (one percentage point equals 100 basis points), over the interest rate on 5-year National Savings Certificate (NSC) issued by India Post Office.
The following is a chart containing half-yearly interest rates on FRSB, 2020 (T) since its introduction in Jul2020:
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Sources of information for this India Fixed Income Data Bank:
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India-based Fintech apps for fixed income products
Wint Wealth @WintWealth bags online bond platform provider (OBPP) license from SEBI - Fourdegreewater Capital Pvt Ltd - Anshul Gupta
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