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Debt funds are risky, too

Massive drops in the NAVs of some debt funds have made investors realise the risk in these funds. Here's how you can pick safe and sound debt funds

Value Research Oct 29, 2020

An analysis of the daily rolling returns of five categories of debt funds that see high investor interest - low-duration, money-market, short-duration, corporate bond, and banking and PSU - shows that the number of instances of a debt-fund NAV dropping by 1 per cent or more in a single day has risen sharply in the last two years. It seems to have gone through the roof in 2019 and 2020 (see the chart below).

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