Just after the Budget 2021, all the Debt funds started off a downfall. The medium to short term debt funds made a U turn in some time. Yet the Corporate Bond funds, all of them probably, are still downhill.
Could someone please account fir this?
What specifics are driving this downfall in this section of Debt funds?
The large borrowing program of government announced in budget looks like the culprit.
After budget yield on G-secs are rising and fear is that huge govt borrowing is going to crowd the debt market and hence yield on corporate bonds are rising too.
Since yields are rising, prices of those bonds already held by corporate debt funds is falling and hence the debt funds NAV are falling.
In general longer duration funds are more impacted by yield swings and hence effect is less in medium to short duration funds.