A: There are two way to look at it. One is that when you invest in a bond fund the worst thing you should do is to look at historical return because these return already come in and they is no guarantee that this fund will deliver similar kind of return. Unlike equity, in a bond you need to look at simple thing that what is the current portfolio maturity and what is the current portfolio yield and if you invest in that product and have that kind of maturity yield and if you stay invested in that fund for that period then yield minus expenses you are going to get it.
If you look at liquid right now, liquid fund have a 60 days maturity, current portfolio yield is 10 percent plus, 25 bps expenses, you are going to get 9.75 to 10 percent for next 60 days. Similarly if you look at accrual products, which are one year plus kind of products where current yield is anything between 11 to 11.5 and 12 percent. You take 1.5 percent expenses, 10 percent plus kind of return you get, suppose you stay invested for one year period, so that is a way one need to look at.
Technically I can answer you that it has to be benchmark against the bond index and all that which for a normal investor doesn't matter. I think the real benchmark for a bond is to look at company FDs. If you have one year company FD, if you have three year company FD and you have product which is one year maturity or three year maturity then that product yield to maturity (YTM) has to be higher than the bank deposit.
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