19/08/2026
💸 Direct vs Regular Plan: The Expense Drag
1% sounds like a rounding error.
But on a ₹10,000 monthly SIP over 20 years, that 1% difference can translate into ₹8,61,194 less in your final corpus. 📉
That’s the illustrative gap between a regular plan and a direct plan, using SEBI’s assumptions:
1.5% expense ratio vs 0.5%, with a 10% gross return.
So yes — costs matter. And controlling them is worth it. 🎯
But here’s the bigger question:
Are fees really the biggest leak in your portfolio?
📊 Axis Mutual Fund studied Indian investor behaviour from 2003–2022.
• Equity funds returned: 19.1%
• Investors actually earned: 13.8%
• Gap: 5.3 percentage points
And that 5.3% gap wasn’t caused by fees.
It was largely about investor behaviour — churning portfolios, selling during volatile periods and buying back after markets had already recovered. 🔄📉📈
1% is worth saving.
5.3% is worth fixing first.
So, what is your churn costing you? 🤔
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📌 Sources: SEBI Investor Education — Regular vs Direct Plans; Axis Mutual Fund, Analysis of Indian Investor Behaviour, 2003–2022.
Corpus figures are illustrative: ₹10,000 monthly SIP, 20 years, 10% gross return, using SEBI’s stated expense assumptions.
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