A Do-It-Yourself (DIY) investor recently stumbled on this puzzling data while researching short duration debt mutual fund schemes in an online website. She was surprised to note that the website has rated the regular plan of HDFC Short Term Debt Fund five-star, while the direct plan of the same scheme was rated a notch below at four-star.
She just couldn’t figure out how such a difference in the ranking is possible. Her reasoning was if the direct plans are supposed to give better retur ..