The debt market has seen various changes in the recent past. The sudden spike in retail inflation in December to 7.35% from 5.54% in November has surpassed the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) comfort level. In the last monetary policy, RBI put a halt on repo rate cuts, after reducing it by 135 basis points since February 2019, but it maintained an accommodative stance and introduced measures such as long-term repo operations. Renu Yadav asks experts if these changes will impact the performance of debt products, including duration funds, and if investors need to revisit their debt allocation strategy
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