Direct and regular plans

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Assets under ManagementThe total value of the money a scheme or a fund house manages — the current NAV multiplied by units outstanding — and the base on which the expense ratio is charged.
• Base Expense RatioThe management-and-administration slice of a scheme's cost, capped by the SEBI slabs — the first and largest of the four components that add up to Total Expense Ratio.
• Key Information MemorandumThe short summary of the SID and SAI that SEBI requires to accompany every mutual fund application form — the one scheme document an investor is guaranteed to be handed.
• Mutual fundA trust registered with SEBI that pools money from many investors and invests it in securities on their behalf — not a different product from shares and bonds, but a different way of owning them.
• Net Asset ValueThe net assets of a mutual fund scheme divided by the number of units outstanding — what one unit of the scheme is worth on a given day, after every liability except the unitholders' own.
• New Fund OfferThe period in which a mutual fund scheme's units are offered to the public for the first time, at a fixed NFO price rather than at NAV, and during which the registrar builds the scheme's first register of investors.