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Impact of falling T-Bill rates in Kenya: should investors shift to Equities?

Faith Ndunda by Faith Ndunda
December 5, 2024
in Investments
Reading Time: 2 mins read

Over the past few months, Kenya has seen a continued drop in the yields on Treasury Bill, indicating a shift in the country’s financials. This decrease, coupled with inflation and economic conditions, carries significant implications for investors. Notably, as of 2nd December, 2024, the yields on the 91 day, 182 days and 364 days treasury bills decreased by 4.8%, 4.8% and 3.8% points respectively to 11.3%, 11.3% and 12.5% respectively from the 16.1%, 16.1% and 16.3% respectively recorded at the end of January.

Treasury Bills are often viewed as low-risk investments, providing guaranteed returns backed by the government. However, when the T-bills rates fall, the returns from T-bills become less attractive for investors. A decrease in T-bill rates indicates that the government may not have to offer high returns to attract investors, meaning that the government needs to borrow less and its finances are doing better T-bill rates drop results in a decrease in returns for investors. With T-bill rates dropping, investors who prefer low-risk investment find the returns unattractive. This could lead to a shift in investment ventures, with investors seeking different investment opportunities to preserve capital and achieve higher returns than those offered by T-bills.

Lowering T-bill rates makes other investment opportunities like equities attractive. Equities have the potential to offer higher returns compared to fixed-income securities like T-bills. With a fall in T-bill rates, equities may become more attractive, especially for investors who are not risk-avoidant. The Kenyan stock market has been fluctuating in recent years making investors avoid investing in stock. However, with this recent update in the T-bills rate, this would be an opportunity for the stock market to do better given it has the probability to provide higher returns.

 Although equities offer higher returns, they are unpredictable compared to T-bills. For risk-averse investors, this could result in a challenge. However, it could make them diversify their portfolio by investing in a risky venture like equities while managing risk through the low earning T-bills.

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