Debt Funds or Fixed income funds is a popular money market instrument. Watch this video to get the answers to questions like: what are debt funds, what are the types of debt funds, what are short term debt funds, what are liquid funds etc.
Before moving to the types of debt funds, let us find out what they are.
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Debt Funds have the following advantages:
• More Stability
• Less volatile
There are different types of debt funds to choose from. These are categorized on a number of parameters:
1. Investment horizon: Liquid funds and money market funds are suitable for those who have surplus money and seek an investment horizon ranging from a few days to a few months. Short term debt funds are suitable for those who have investment horizon of 6 months to a year. Lon term debt funds are suitable for investors with horizon of at least an year
2. Debt securities: Based on the kind of debt securities funds invest in, they are categorized as floating rate funds, Government security funds and corporate bond funds
There are many more like dynamic bond funds, fixed maturity plans, credit opportunity funds and fixed income funds.
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