The expense ratio isn't the only number that indicates your total costs of having a fund instead of individual stocks. Investors must also consider how much money they put into the fund.

Expense ratio is deducted daily from the net asset value (NAV) of the fund before it is published on the AMC website. How is it calculated? It is calculated by dividing the fund’s total expenses ...

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given the fund's 0.03% expense ratio. This fund pays dividends once annually in December. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund launched in 2000. It has since become popular in the field of ...

The fund has a 0.58% total expense ratio — total annual expenses to own the fund. SDIV has a 30-day SEC yield of 5.2% and a 12-month trailing yield of 5.88%. The index review occurs quarterly ...

But the jury is out on whether this will help. SEBI had permitted fund houses an additional expense ratio of 30 bps on new inflows (up to Rs 2 lakh) from retail investors for incentivising mutual ...