Tipping Point: Should you invest in credit risk funds?

Investors should take limited exposure in credit risk funds

Business Standard 

Return from the credit risk fund category has declined to 5.06 per cent over the past year. This is much lower than their three-year category average return of 7.25 per cent and five-year average of 8.31 per cent. The asset-under management of this category has also declined by 10 per cent from Rs 91,031 crore in August 2018 to Rs 81,951 crore at the end of February 2019.

No doubt the outflows are also correlated to the defaults by IL&FS and its subsidiaries and the subsequent liquidity squeeze. These events brought investors face-to-face with credit risk. Investors ...

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First Published: Thu, March 21 2019. 00:59 IST