What are the investment options in which interest rates are calculated at monthly/quarterly intervals?

Answer 1

Go in for Postal monthly income scheme (MIS @8%) in case you want interest in hand monthly. The postal agent will do every thing for you. they get 1% commision; of which he is supposed to pay you back 1/2%. Mutual funds are also there but investment knowledge is reqd for that

Answer 2

hello Ashu

There are many investment options available in the market that can suit every pocket from small investors to large one and there are various ways you can invest from short term to long term depending upon an individuals need.

You can invest in mutual funds the way you like monthly, quaterly or annually. Though investing in mutual funds in monthly mode gives better returns and also carries the lowest risk this type of investment is called SIP - Systematic Investment Plan and you can start investing as little as Rs 500/ - a month............ you can get the information about all these funds from any bank............ do go through the details in the offer before investing or you can write to me

The other option is investing in ULIP products of an insurance company which are very safe as all the insurance companies are strictly guided by IRDA..... and you have the option of investing lumpsum if you have enough money...... you also have the option of investing in monthly, quaterly and annual mode............. do go through the plan and the charges before investing


hope all this information helps

Answer 3

There are many of them. I cannot tell you the name of any specifically.
I have an investor's money market account that compounds interest monthly. Check with your local banks, some require a minimum deposit (which is usually substantial), some require a minimum balance to collect interest each month, some require that you have another account with that financial institution.

Answer 4

mutual fund is better option for investments. no calculation of interest. its rate is growing every daya. you get more than 20% profit in year

Answer 5

Gpf, Ppf, Cpf are some of them

Answer 6

An interest rate swap is a contractual agreement entered into between two counterparties under which each agrees to make periodic payment to the other for an agreed period of time based upon a notional amount of principal. The principal amount is notional because there is no need to exchange actual amounts of principal in a single currency transaction: there is no foreign exchange component to be taken account of. Equally, however, a notional amount of principal is required in order to compute the actual cash amounts that will be periodically exchanged.

Under the commonest form of interest rate swap, a series of payments calculated by applying a fixed rate of interest to a notional principal amount is exchanged for a stream of payments similarly calculated but using a floating rate of interest. This is a fixed-for-floating interest rate swap. Alternatively, both series of cashflows to be exchanged could be calculated using floating rates of interest but floating rates that are based upon different underlying indices. Examples might be Libor and commercial paper or Treasury bills and Libor and this form of interest rate swap is known as a basis or money market swap.

(ii) Pricing Interest Rate Swaps

If we consider the generic fixed-to-floating interest rate swap, the most obvious difficulty to be overcome in pricing such a swap would seem to be the fact that the future stream of floating rate payments to be made by one counterparty is unknown at the time the swap is being priced. This must be literally true: no one can know with absolute certainty what the 6 month US dollar Libor rate will be in 12 months time or 18 months time. However, if the capital markets do not possess an infallible crystal ball in which the precise trend of future interest rates can be observed, the markets do possess a considerable body of information about the relationship between interest rates and future periods of time.

In many countries, for example, there is a deep and liquid market in interest bearing securities issued by the government. These securities pay interest on a periodic basis, they are issued with a wide range of maturities, principal is repaid only at maturity and at any given point in time the market values these securities to yield whatever rate of interest is necessary to make the securities trade at their par value.

It is possible, therefore, to plot a graph of the yields of such securities having regard to their varying maturities. This graph is known generally as a yield curve -- i.e.: the relationship between future interest rates and time -- and a graph showing the yield of securities displaying the same characteristics as government securities is known as the par coupon yield curve. The classic example of a par coupon yield curve is the US Treasury yield curve. A different kind of security to a government security or similar interest bearing note is the zero-coupon bond. The zero-coupon bond does not pay interest at periodic intervals. Instead it is issued at a discount from its par or face value but is redeemed at par, the accumulated discount which is then repaid representing compounded or "rolled-up" interest. A graph of the internal rate of return (IRR) of zero-coupon bonds over a range of maturities is known as the zero-coupon yield curve.

Finally, at any time the market is prepared to quote an investor forward interest rates. If, for example, an investor wishes to place a sum of money on deposit for six months and then reinvest that deposit once it has matured for a further six months, then the market will quote today a rate at which the investor can re-invest his deposit in six months time. This is not an exercise in "crystal ball gazing" by the market. On the contrary, the six month forward deposit rate is a mathematically derived rate which reflects an arbitrage relationship between current (or spot) interest rates and forward interest rates. In other words, the six month forward interest rate will always be the precise rate of interest which eliminates any arbitrage profit. The forward interest rate will leave the investor indifferent as to whether he invests for six months and then re-invests for a further six months at the six month forward interest rate or whether he invests for a twelve month period at today's twelve month deposit rate.

The graphical relationship of forward interest rates is known as the forward yield curve. One must conclude, therefore, that even if -- literally -- future interest rates cannot be known in advance, the market does possess a great deal of information concerning the yield generated by existing instruments over future periods of time and it does have the ability to calculate forward interest rates which will always be at such a level as to eliminate any arbitrage profit with spot interest rates. Future floating rates of interest can be calculated, therefore, using the forward yield curve but this in itself is not sufficient to let us calculate the fixed rate payments due under the swap. A further piece of the puzzle is missing and this relates to the fact that the net present value of the aggregate set of cashflows due under any swap is -- at inception -- zero. The truth of this statement will become clear if we reflect on the fact that the net present value of any fixed rate or floating rate loan must be zero when that loan is granted, provided, of course, that the loan has been priced according to prevailing market terms. This must be true, since otherwise it would be possible to make money simply by borrowing money, a nonsensical result However, we have already seen that a fixed to floating interest rate swap is no more than the combination of a fixed rate loan and a floating rate loan without the initial borrowing and subsequent repayment of a principal amount. The net present value of both the fixed rate stream of payments and the floating rate stream of payments in a fixed to floating interest rate swap is zero, therefore, and the net present value of the complete swap must be zero, since it involves the exchange of one zero net present value stream of payments for a second net present value stream of payments.

The pricing picture is now complete. Since the floating rate payments due under the swap can be calculated as explained above, the fixed rate payments will be of such an amount that when they are deducted from the floating rate payments and the net cash flow for each period is discounted at the appropriate rate given by the zero coupon yield curve, the net present value of the swap will be zero. It might also be noted that the actual fixed rate produced by the above calculation represents the par coupon rate payable for that maturity if the stream of fixed rate payments due under the swap are viewed as being a hypothetical fixed rate security. This could be proved by using standard fixed rate bond valuation techniques.

(iii) Financial Benefits Created By Swap Transactions

Consider the following statements:

(a) A company with the highest credit rating, AAA, will pay less to raise funds under identical terms and conditions than a less creditworthy company with a lower rating, say BBB. The incremental borrowing premium paid by a BBB company, which it will be convenient to refer to as a "credit quality spread", is greater in relation to fixed interest rate borrowings than it is for floating rate borrowings and this spread increases with maturity.

(b) The counterparty making fixed rate payments in a swap is predominantly the less creditworthy participant.

(c) Companies have been able to lower their nominal funding costs by using swaps in conjunction with credit quality spreads.

These statements are, I submit, fully consistent with the objective data provided by swap transactions and they help to explain the "too good to be true" feeling that is sometimes expressed regarding swaps. Can it really be true, outside of "Alice in Wonderland", that everyone can be a winner and that no one is a loser? If so, why does this happy state of affairs exist?