2023

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RETAIL INVESTOR’S PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS INVESTMENT IN INDIAN CORPORATE BOND MARKET

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SOUTH INDIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

UGC/SCOPUS/Peer Reviewed/ABDC

UGC CARE

Abstract

The paper aims to understand the factors that have limited the development of this market in India. With a conservative bank-based economy in the backdrop and with the Central Bank pulling the strings, the sovereign debt market occupies the most space in the bonds universe of India. The latter and almost minuscule portion of this market is occupied by the corporate and industrial houses that have forayed into the market to raise finances. This has led to a cycle where lack of participation leads to lack of liquidity and underdeveloped rating mechanisms which further pressurizes the development of this market in India.

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MACRO ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING RETAIL INVESTORS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE INDIAN BOND MARKET

Name of the Journal

SOUTH INDIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

UGC/SCOPUS/Peer Reviewed/ABDC

UGC CARE

Abstract

Increasing the Liquidity in Corporate Bond Market has been a major agenda for the Government and for the Capital market authorities for long now. Various efforts in the forms of reforms, change in guidelines and making availability of the required infrastructure has been made in the direction but still the efforts does not seem to give the expected results when it comes to the participation retails investors in Corporate Bond Market India. One of the major reasons of the non-participation has been lack of sufficient awareness on the part of retail Investors. This paper tries to measure the awareness level about the Corporate Bonds and also the reasons for the non-participation of the retail investors in the Primary and Secondary Markets of Corporate Bond Market, with the help of data collected and its statistical analysis.