CHOLAMANDALAM INVT. AND FIN. CO.LTD Bonds & NCDs

Every line above is debt issued by the same company, so they share one credit story. If CHOLAMANDALAM INVT. AND FIN. CO.LTD runs into trouble, it affects all of them at once — owning three of its NCDs is not the same as being diversified. Size the whole issuer as a single position, then decide which maturity suits you.

The yields differ between lines for real reasons: a longer maturity usually pays more because your money is locked up through more interest-rate cycles, and a thinly traded line can show a yield that came from one small trade rather than a genuine market price. Check the latest trade date on the bond page before treating a number as the price you would actually get.

A credit rating describes the rating agency's view of default risk, not of price movement — and it can differ between two lines from the same issuer. It can be downgraded, and the bond's market price typically moves before the downgrade is published. Read it as one input, alongside the coupon, the remaining tenure and how much of your portfolio a single issuer would take up.