RBI has announced premature redemption for two Sovereign Gold Bond series dated April 23, 2025. Investors of Series IV ...

A series of SGBs are coming up for redemptions this year as gold has scaled a new high. The question is whether investors ...

With gold prices soaring to a record ₹1 lakh per 10 grams, Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) investors are contemplating selling. Those who invested in 2017 are seeing returns of 221%. Financial experts ...

Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) are issues by the Central ... have variable interest rates linked to benchmark rates. In India, the government issues bonds through auctions conducted by the RBI.

When sovereign gold bonds were launched by the government in November 2016, the idea was to offer a low-cost fund raising avenue for the government. More importantly, it would reduce the appetite ...

Investors can sell sovereign gold bonds on stock exchanges or prematurely redeem them in the repurchase facility offered by ...

meaning the government will have to face more financial pressure in the coming years. Despite the gold bond scheme, India’s annual gold import cost remained around $37 billion. In 2022 ...

The Ministry cited evolving market conditions and performance of the scheme while announcing the discontinuation.

India's upcoming bond forwards are set to boost demand for state debt and lower borrowing costs for sub-national issuers, a ...

exchange trade funds and sovereign bonds. Currently, the import duty on gold in India stands at ten per cent. The central government keeps on changing the import duty depending on the need to curb ...

Especially fixed income assets like government securities or bonds which only give you ... We ran a rolling-return analysis on gold prices (in India, in rupee terms) over the last 25 years and ...

Investors are not opting for early redemption in belief that gold prices will hit the ₹1 lakh per 10 gm mark due to global trade war unleashed by US President Donald Trump and the ongoing wars in ...