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why is there inconsistent returns difference between direct and regular mutual funds?
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if this is the case, then shouldn't the difference between their annualized returns be same year on year? in general yes, however there difference has a compounding effect. i.e. if the difference if 5% first year, this money is invested and it would generate more of the said returns. however in reality as the corpus size of direct funds is very small, there difference is not very significant as other factors come into play.
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