HDFC Gilt Fund

Anil Bamboli is a competent and experienced manager with an overall experience of 24 years. He is supported by a highly experienced, adequately resourced, and stable investment team that adds to the fund’s appeal. The fund’s investment process is based on a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative due diligence process. Its assessment of inflation, money supply, private-government borrowings, fiscal and monetary policy, and the global interest-rate scenario leads to the selection of a duration target. In addition to duration management, yield-curve positioning and interest-rate direction calls form the basis of portfolio construction. Anil Bamboli follows an aggressive investment approach. Historically, the fund has maintained higher duration as against its peers and has always stuck to the investment mandate. However, with the recent change in the fund mandate, it has the...