MF Corner: How to create an optimised debt portfolio? IDFC MF's Suyash Choudhary explains

Investors often give outsized importance to the equity portion of our portfolios, but it's time they should take the debt portion seriously and look at crafting an optimised debt portfolio.

Even within debt - investors have to take great pains to understand the credit risk, perhaps because it was thrust in their faces but not many are familiar with the nuances of the duration and the interest rate risk.

In this Mutual Fund Corner, Suyash Choudhary, Head - Fixed Income at IDFC MF, takes master class on creating an optimised debt portfolio and what to do when bond yields see sharp moves.