Recurring expenses
The fees and commissions paid to the fund's constituents, charged as a percentage of assets under management and deducted while calculating the NAV — so higher expenses mean a lower NAV and lower investor returns.
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.
- Exchange Traded FundA mutual fund scheme whose units are listed and traded on a stock exchange like a share, so you transact at live prices through the day instead of at one end-of-day NAV.
- Face valueThe denomination a company's capital is divided into and carried in its books — fixed, printed on the certificate, and the base on which dividend percentages and stock splits are computed.
- Fixed Maturity PlanA close-ended debt scheme whose portfolio maturity is aligned to the scheme's own maturity date, so the investor who stays to the end has a reasonably visible outcome — though never a guaranteed one.
- IDCWThe renamed dividend option of a mutual fund scheme — a payout that is part income and part return of your own capital, which is why the NAV falls by exactly the amount distributed.
- Macaulay durationThe weighted average time, in years, to receive a bond's cash flows, each weighted by the present value of that cash flow — the bond's effective payback period.
Where this is taught
- Series V-B · Chapter 2: Concept and Role of a mutual fundintroduced here
- Series V-D · Chapter 2: Concept & Role of a Mutual Fundintroduced here
- Series V-A · Chapter 2: Concept & Role of a Mutual Fundintroduced here
Related terms
- 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.
- Total Expense RatioThe all-in annual cost of a mutual fund scheme as a percentage of daily net assets — the base expense ratio plus brokerage, transaction cost and statutory levies — charged to the scheme, not billed to the investor.
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