{"id":4132,"date":"2023-03-06T09:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/treasury-bills\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:40:37","slug":"treasury-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/treasury-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTreasury bills, also called T-bills are \u2018zero-coupon\u2019 short-term debt instruments issued by the Government of India, with a maximum tenure of 364 days. These are used by the government for borrowing funds and are issued at a discount to the Face value. As they are redeemed at their nominal value, the difference becomes an investor\u2019s profit.<\/p>\n<h2>What are the benefits of Treasury Bills?<\/h2>\n<p>Treasury Bills have gained popularity amongst retail investors for their benefits like:<br \/>\n1. They are good for parking funds for the short term, upto one year<br \/>\n2. These are very low risk investments as T-Bills are issued by the Government of India and thus have almost zero maturity risk<br \/>\n3. Treasury bills can be sold in the secondary market<\/p>\n<h2>How To Buy T-Bills?<\/h2>\n<p>Retail investors can buy T-Bills by:<br \/>\na) opening a \u2018Retail Direct Scheme Account\u2019 with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) or<br \/>\nb) directly from the stock exchanges<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury bills, also called T-bills are \u2018zero-coupon\u2019 short-term debt instruments issued by the Government of India, with a maximum tenure of 364 days. These are used by the government for borrowing funds and are issued at a discount to the Face value. As they are redeemed at their nominal value, the difference becomes an investor\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutual-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}