The year 2015 started on a good note for duration strategies, with RBI cutting the repo rate by a total 125 bps (during the year) leading to softening of bond yields. However, expectations of rate hike by the US Fed and subsequently with the Fed raising rates by 25 bps, a significant amount of these gains reversed towards the end of the year. Nevertheless, full transmission of the rate cuts by the RBI is yet to happen, which could augur well for duration strategies in the coming year. Meanwhile, there were credit concerns on individual companies during the year, which weighed a bit on the accrual strategies. However, improving credit ratio seems to indicate that we broadly appear to be in a credit upgrade cycle. Additionally, further transmission of policy rate cuts would help to bring down cost of capital for Indian companies, which in turn may bode well for the improvement of the credit environment and thus, benefit accrual strategies.