Should you shift your mutual fund investments from a regular to a direct plan? This is the question that many investors currently grappling with, especially after the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), came out with data recently that showed direct plans beating regular ones across multiple time frames.
The Sebi report said that 66% of direct funds outperformed their benchmark over a 10-year period, whereas only 39% of regular funds managed to do so.