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Bond Guru
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
Bringing up a family
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it” is advice from a religious text about...
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Bond Guru
- Aug 23, 2021
- 3 min
WHAT IS MARKET PRICE OF A BOND
In a bond world, it is important to understand the three key metrics: Market Price, YTM, and Coupon Rate, and the relation between them...
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Bond Guru
- Aug 16, 2021
- 5 min
YTM AND ITS INVERSE RELATION WITH MARKET PRICE
“Price is what you pay, value is what you get”. In an investment world nothing holds truer than these words from Warren Buffett. Humans...
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Bond Guru
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
Settlement of a Bond Trade
Whose grandmother hasn’t talking longingly about the “Good old days”? Everything about the good old days was marvelous. Prices of food...
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Bond Guru
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Derivatives – Options for Action
The ability of Thales to decipher actions in nature and create a derivative that made him wagonloads of money we have seen, and maybe...
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Bond Guru
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Derivatives. Making money (Leverage)
There are broadly 4 types of players in the financial markets. Arbitrageurs Traders Hedgers Speculators We have visited some strategies...
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Bond Guru
- Jul 17, 2021
- 3 min
Bank FDs vs Nothing Safer
One of the greatest attraction of investors towards bank fixed deposits is the safety they perceive a FD provides. There is one endearing...
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Bond Guru
- Jul 10, 2021
- 4 min
WHAT AND WHY OF FIXED INCOME SECURITIES
Introduction We hear Gen-Y or even Gen-Z talking about grinding in their 20s, building in their 30s and chilling in their 40s! With a...
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Bond Guru
- Jul 3, 2021
- 3 min
Beating the Street – Equity vs Debt investments
Mr. Peter Lynch being perfectly right in considering equity as a superior investment to fixed-income in the USA when parameters like PEG...
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Bond Guru
- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
Beating the Street
‘Beating the Street’ is one of the 2 amazing books by Peter Lynch that I consider among the best, simplest material on investing...
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Bond Guru
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
IMPACT OF RISING U.S INFLATION ON THE INDIAN DEBT MARKET
Rising inflation in the U.S has stirred the global financial markets. Before we access the impact of same on the Indian debt market,...
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Bond Guru
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
SOVEREIGN GOLD BONDS: A SAFE HAVEN INVESTMENT
Looking to invest in Gold but don’t want the burden of physically holding it? Well, look no further - Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) are here...
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Bond Guru
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
Bonds: A way to diversify your portfolio
What does each one of us think of doing when we have accumulated some savings? Other than shopping of course! We look for a mode of...
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Bond Guru
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
The Futures (Derivatives) Market
The Indian market had an indigenous system called ‘badla’ that facilitated funding of speculation for the risk taker, while earning...
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Bond Guru
- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
Put and Call – the other derivatives
Thales, the smart guy from ancient Greece who we have visited earlier, lived almost 2,500 years ago. We checked out his strategy for...
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Bond Guru
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Future of the Market
Harshad Mehta was a big man. And not just physically. The hefty man deployed shenanigans in the capital market that caused a load of...
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anugrahsharma4
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Liquidity is no LAFing matter
Fiscal policy and monetary policy are terms we see often in financial papers. We also talk about them in the Commerce undergraduate...
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anugrahsharma4
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
State Guaranteed Bonds
Government borrowing makes up for a large part of the budgetary shortfalls. Part of this is announced as a part of the Finance Minister’s...
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The Fixed Income
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
State Development Loans (SDLs)
The high risk of market volatility compares said the US returned friend, to an “E-Ticket” ride at Disney World. E, on a 5-grade starting...
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