{"id":1448,"date":"2024-04-23T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamawealth.com\/askguru\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:25:47","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-direct-investment-and-investment-from-a-broker-in-mutual-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/2024\/04\/23\/what-is-the-difference-between-direct-investment-and-investment-from-a-broker-in-mutual-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between direct investment and investment from a broker in mutual funds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Simple, with a direct plan mutual fund you pay zero commissions. With regular plan mutual funds, you pay commissions as indirect fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These commissions add upto 40% in the long run because most equity mutual funds incur about 1.5% annual commissions. Imagine giving away 40% of your portfolio. This is real money. And yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NAVs of the two are different,but everything else remains the same. So one is like wholesale and the other is a retail price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Simple, with a direct plan mutual fund you pay zero commissions. With regular plan mutual funds, you pay commissions as indirect fees. These commissions add upto 40% in the long run because most equity mutual funds incur about 1.5% annual commissions. Imagine giving away 40% of your portfolio. This is real money. And yours. The… Read More »What is the difference between direct investment and investment from a broker in mutual funds?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutual-funds","category-regular-or-direct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}