23 min

E13 - The Monsters in Your Debt Fund UniMoney

    • Investissement

Investing in fixed income or debt instruments is supposed to help you sleep well at night. It's supposed to be safe and secure. The key word being 'supposed'. Over the past few months, the debt mutual fund industry has been rocked by multiple issues - defaults due to companies being unable to repay their dues, downgrades of companies because their financial position has deteriorated, and finally a freeze in bond market activity leading to the winding up of 6 debt funds from Franklin Templeton. 

In this episode, we piece together some of these and answer whether you should continue investing in debt mutual funds at all. 

Investing in fixed income or debt instruments is supposed to help you sleep well at night. It's supposed to be safe and secure. The key word being 'supposed'. Over the past few months, the debt mutual fund industry has been rocked by multiple issues - defaults due to companies being unable to repay their dues, downgrades of companies because their financial position has deteriorated, and finally a freeze in bond market activity leading to the winding up of 6 debt funds from Franklin Templeton. 

In this episode, we piece together some of these and answer whether you should continue investing in debt mutual funds at all. 

23 min