Inflation Indexed Bonds – What and Why?
Reserve Bank of India recently launched Inflation Index Bond also known as Inflation-linked bonds or Inflation Indexed National Savings Securities. These bonds are launched in the backdrop of announcement made in the Union Budget 2013-14 to introduce instruments that will protect savings from inflation and also with increasing preference of investors for diversified instruments and to further improve the depth and width of G-Sec Market, it has been felt that Inflation Indexed bonds could be issued at the current juncture. Inflation-indexed…