In general, bonds are
debt instruments where investors get interest based on the offered rate.
Within debt, which accounts for major chunk, the fund manager invests primarily in central and / or state government backed
debt instruments where the risk associated is not material.
Not exact matches
For entrepreneurs with the leverage, or in seed deals
where the angels are truly indifferent to downside protection, a convertible
instrument that raises cash but leaves no residue of
debt is clever.
Monthly Income Plan or the MIP is basically a
debt - oriented hybrid mutual fund
where nearly three - fourth of the corpus is invested in
debt instruments such as debentures, government securities, and the likes.
Even claims against equity must be done on a fair value basis,
where hybrid
instruments get decomposed into an equity claim and a
debt claim, and the split gets re-evaluated each period as market prices change.
There have been instances in the past
where funds have held questionable
debt instruments which have been downgraded by credit agencies later.
Investment of cash in gold is also specifically a hedge against currency inflation; paper money, account balances, and even
debt instruments like bonds and CDs can lose real value over time in a «hot» economy
where there's more money than things to buy with it.
Unit Linked Insurance Plans are the type of insurance
where part of your money is invested in units that represent Shares and
debt instruments and the remaining is used for your premium.
Irda has also stipulated that the maximum loan amount that can be sanctioned under any Ulip will not exceed 40 per cent of the net asset value (NAV) in those products
where equity accounts for more than 60 per cent of the total share, and 50 per cent of the NAV
where debt instruments account for more than 60 per cent of the total share.