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 07Dec2024: Chart 9:
India Floating Rate Bonds (FRBs): (Old blog India Public Debt and Floating Rate Bonds 29Oct2023)
The
coupon rates set at half-yearly intervals on FRBs are a pointer to the
interest rate environment in the country. As can be seen from the below
image, coupon rates of FRBs have been declining since the beginning of
2024 -- indicating an easing interest rate scenario in India.
Major
central banks, including the Fed, ECB (European Central Bank) and Bank
of England have been reducing interest rates in recent months. Only
Japanese central bank is on a path of rate increases.
But
during the MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) meeting on 06Dec2024, RBI
decided to keep the benchmark repo rate unchanged, but reduced the cash reserve ratio (CRR) from 4.50 per cent to 4.00 per cent.
RBI on 06Dec2024 announced
the coupon rate, for the next six months, for the FRB 2031 at 7.53 per
cent, including a fixed spread of 100 basis points (one percentage point
equals 100 basis points).
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Update 01Nov2024: Chart 8:
India Floating Rate Bonds (FRBs): (Old blog India Public Debt and Floating Rate Bonds 29Oct2023)
The
coupon rates set at half-yearly intervals on FRBs are a pointer to the
interest rate environment in the country. As can be seen from the below
image, coupon rates of FRBs have been declining since the beginning of
2024 -- indicating an easing interest rate scenario in India.
Major
central banks, including the Fed, ECB (European Central Bank) and Bank
of England have been reducing interest rates in recent months. Only
Japanese central bank is on a path of rate increases.
But during the MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) meeting on 09Oct2024, RBI decided to keep the benchmark repo rate unchanged, while changing the monetary policy stance to 'neutral' from earlier 'withdrawal of accommodation.'
RBI on 29Oct2024 announced
the coupon rate, for the next six months, for the FRB 2034 at 7.53 per
cent, including a fixed spread of 98 basis points (one percentage point
equals 100 basis points).
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Update 04Oct2024: Chart 7:
RBI Issues New 10-Year G-Sec Paper: (Old blog dated 15Jan2022 on New 10-Year G-Sec Instruments)
Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India's central bank, issued a new 10-year G-Sec instrument through a government security auction on 04Oct2024. The effective date of this new G-Sec paper will be Monday, 07Oct2024 and this 10-year paper will mature on 07Oct2034.
The new 10-year government bond is 6.79% GS 2034 (please note in the image below it is wrongly mentioned as 6.78% GS 2034).
Historical data of all new 10-year G-Sec instruments issued since 2020 >
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Update 03Oct2024: Chart 6:
India Floating Rate Bonds (FRBs): (Old blog India Public Debt and Floating Rate Bonds 29Oct2023)
The
coupon rates set at half-yearly intervals on FRBs are a pointer to the
interest rate environment in the country. As can be seen from the below
image, coupon rates of FRBs have been declining since the beginning of
2024 -- indicating an easing interest rate scenario in India.
Ahead of the RBI MPC (monetary policy committee) meeting, short-term interest rates as reflected in FRBs are showing a downward rate path. On October 9th, RBI's MPC will decide on whether to cut RBI repo rate.
Major central banks, including the Fed, ECB (European Central Bank) and Bank of England have been reducing interest rates in recent months. Only Japanese central bank is on a path of rate increases.
RBI today declared the coupon rate, for the next six months, for the FRB 2028 at 7.30 per cent, including a fixed spread of 64 basis points (one percentage point equals 100 basis points).
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Update 22Sep2024: Charts 4 and 5:
India Floating Rate Bonds (FRBs): (Old blog India Public Debt and Floating Rate Bonds 29Oct2023)
As on date, there are six Floating Rate Bond (FRB) issues outstanding. FRBs are issued by Government of India as part its market borrowing programme.
The total outstanding amount of the six FRBs as on 17Sep2024 is Rs 4.09 lakh crore, which is just 3.8 per cent of the total G-Sec outstanding of Rs 107.45 lakh crore.
Total FRBs outstanding was 4.05 per cent of total G-Sec outstanding as on 27Feb2024.
Fixed rate bonds are bonds on which the coupon rate (interest rate) is fixed for the entire life
(that is, till maturity) of the bond (For more on FRBs, please check earlier blog).
FRB coupon rates are reset at half-yearly intervals.
Typically, the coupon rate of an FRB has two components -- consisting of a variable base rate and a fixed spread. The variable base rate is based on a base rate equivalent to the average of the Weighted
Average Yield (WAY) of last three auctions of 182-Day Treasury Bills.
The
spread is fixed for the entire tenure of the bond and is
decided on the eve of its primary auction.
The coupon rates set at half-yearly intervals on FRBs are a pointer to the interest rate environment in the country. As can be seen from the below image, coupon rates of FRBs have been declining since the beginning of 2024 -- indicating an easing interest rate scenario in India.
Charts 4 and 5 >
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Update 21Jul2024: Chart 3:
Kotak Debt Hybrid Fund: For an analysis of Kotak Debt Hybrid fund, which is a conservative hybrid fund, please check blog dated 15Jul2024:
Fund's quity allocation, modified duration, AUM, expense ratio and exit load in the past three years >
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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
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