Is it a good time now to invest in gilt funds as the interest rates have bottomed out?—D R Joshi Gilt funds are fixed-income funds with a mandate to invest at least 80% of the assets into G-secs. These funds have no exposure to corporate securities and no restriction on the duration position-ing of the fund. As of October 2021, gilt funds have a modified duration ranging from 2.6 to 7.7 years. Since 2019, the RBI has cut the policy rate sharply and announced steps to support the slowdown in the economy.
These measures along with abundant liquidity in the banking system resulted in yields falling across the yield curve, particularly at the shorter end leading to a steepening of the yield curve. Currently, the medium-end of the curve (4 to 7
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