Fitch affirms investment-grade rating for Invesco India Bond Fund

Press Trust of India  |  Mumbai 

Ratings Tuesday affirmed Invesco Bond Fund's international fund credit quality rating of 'BBB-f', an investment-grade rating.

"The affirmation of the international fund credit quality rating reflects the fund's adequate underlying credit quality, taking into consideration the long maturity profile of the fund's assets," the agency said in a note.

The fund is regulated under the European Commission's Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities Directive.

Domiciled in Luxembourg, the fund is managed by

As of end-April 2019, the fund had USD 576 million in assets under management.

It invests mainly in local currency securities, government-related securities and corporate bonds.

The fund anticipates investing at least 35 per cent in debt securities issued and/or guaranteed by (BBB-/Stable), according to the investment guidelines.

It's assets were 34 per cent bonds as of end-April 2019, 5 per cent were securities issued by sub-sovereign entities, 2.7 per cent were 'AAA' rated market funds, 54.2 per cent were rated 'AAA' on a national scale in the country by domestic rating agencies

The rating agency further said a downgrade of India's international long-term issuer default rating would probably lead to a downgrade of the fund because of the large portion of government securities in the fund.

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First Published: Tue, June 04 2019. 19:35 IST