Plain-language explainers on how mutual funds actually work — written to help you get more out of the data and tools on this site, not just to fill a page.
The same fund, the same portfolio, the same fund manager — but two different prices. Here is what actually separates a Direct plan from a Regular plan, and what it costs you over time.
6 min readSEBI's 2017 categorisation rules gave every fund category a strict, market-cap-based definition. Here's what each one actually means for what a fund can and can't hold.
6 min readA mutual fund's expense ratio looks small on a factsheet. Compounded over decades, small annual percentages turn into genuinely large absolute numbers. Here's the actual math.
5 min readWhy owning three or four "different" mutual funds often means owning the same 20 stocks three or four times over — and how to actually check it.
7 min readSEBI requires every mutual fund to publish its complete holdings every month. Here is what those disclosures actually contain, and how to make sense of them.
6 min readYou might hold five different mutual funds and still be dangerously concentrated in a handful of stocks or one sector, without realising it. Here's how that happens and how to check your real exposure.
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