Not all mutual funds are created equal, and the type you choose—either direct or regular—can significantly impact your financial outcomes. Understanding these differences is critical to avoid being misled by hidden costs and conflicted advice that could reduce your returns.

Not all mutual funds are created equal, and the type you choose—either direct or regular—can significantly impact your financial outcomes. Understanding these differences is critical to avoid being misled by hidden costs and conflicted advice that could reduce your returns.

With a view to bringing in standardization in the classification of mutual funds and to ensure the schemes are clearly distinct from one another, SEBI issued a circular on Categorization and Rationalization of Mutual Fund Schemes in 2017.

Here we describe Hybrid Funds, Index Funds, ETFs and solution-oriented Funds

With a view to bringing in standardization in the classification of mutual funds and to ensure the schemes are clearly distinct from one another, SEBI issued a circular on Categorization and Rationalization of Mutual Fund Schemes in 2017. The objective was to bring uniformity to the characteristics of similar type of schemes launched by different mutual fund houses so that investors could objectively evaluate the schemes chosen for investment.

With a view to bringing in standardization in the classification of mutual funds and to ensure the schemes are clearly distinct from one another, SEBI issued a circular on Categorization and Rationalization of Mutual Fund Schemes in 2017. The objective was to bring uniformity to the characteristics of similar type of schemes launched by different mutual fund houses so that investors could objectively evaluate the schemes chosen for investment.