{"id":17579,"date":"2020-02-06T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2020-02-06T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:38:11","slug":"what-no-one-tells-you-about-monthly-dividend-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/research-desk\/what-no-one-tells-you-about-monthly-dividend-plans\/17579","title":{"rendered":"What no one tells you about Monthly Dividend Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MF Monthly Dividend Plans are sometimes sold to investors on the pitch that they will offer almost 1% \u2018return\u2019 in the form of dividend payouts every month. That is, a \u2018return\u2019 of around 10-12% for the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds attractive right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s check what really happens, by taking the example of ICICI Prudential Equity &amp; Debt Fund\u2019s Monthly Dividend Plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the year 2018, the scheme gave investors, dividend every month which added up to around 10% dividend for the entire year. That is, if you had invested Rs.10 lakh at the start of the year, you would have received around Rs.1 lakh by way of dividends by the end of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>So, does that mean the scheme return was 10% in 2018?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, your answer would be a \u2018yes\u2019 if by the end of the period your original investment value had remained unchanged. That is, you end the year with the same Rs.10 lakh that you started with and also make an extra Rs.1 lakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That would seem like a good deal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hang on. Let\u2019s now check what<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> actually<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> happened to the Rs.10 lakh that you invested on 29 Dec 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ll find that your original investment value fell to Rs. 8.7 lakh by 31 Dec 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oops!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assuming you simply put 10 lakhs in your locker, and took out some money every month adding to Rs 1 lakh over the year, still you should have ended up with Rs 9 lakhs right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the remaining amount is Rs 8.7 lakhs, this simply means your fund value must have fallen (as is to be normally expected a lot of times in the short term for any equity-oriented product).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Your return, as calculated by the change in the NAV and as reflected in the fall in your investment value is therefore minus 2.9%. This also takes into account the dividends received.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the table below. <\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17580 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-1.png\" alt=\"Monthly Dividend Plans\" width=\"645\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-1.png 645w, https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-1-300x62.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>\n<h4><b>Dividends don\u2019t equal returns<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s happening here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The dividend that was pitched to you as \u2018return\u2019 is not the actual return but simply the amount extracted from the fund by selling off your investments (securities) worth around 1% of the corpus every month.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happens irrespective of whether the fund has made a positive or negative return on the investments sold. This is certainly not in the best interest of investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scheme NAV falls once dividends are paid. The NAV also falls if the market value of the securities held under the scheme falls. The decline on account of dividend payment is additional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This becomes clear when we compare the change in NAV for the two schemes (table above). The sharper fall in the Dividend Plan NAV (-12.9%) compared to that in the Growth Plan NAV (-1.9%) reflects a large extent the impact of the dividend pay-out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And hence, dividends (10%) do not equal returns (-2.9%)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every dividend payment eats away into the scheme corpus. Assuming the number of outstanding units held by the fund remains the same, the smaller corpus then translates into a smaller NAV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see the impact on the NAV on the next trading day (highlighted in bold) in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the table below.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-2.png\" alt=\"Monthly Dividend Plans\" width=\"639\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-2.png 639w, https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-2-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, on 3 Jan, NAVs under both the plans increased by the same 0.2% compared to the previous day. It was, however, very different on 4 Jan, a day after dividends were paid. While the Growth Plan NAV rose by 0.5%, the Dividend Plan NAV fell by 0.5%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s pick one more day. On 5 April, while the Growth Plan NAV rose by 1.4%, the Dividend Plan NAV rose by only 0.4%.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Monthly dividend plans gained popularity when NAVs were rising\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As seen earlier, dividend payments come at the cost of a decline in your original investment value. This fall in investment value is fairly obvious during a down-market year when the scheme NAV is anyways falling irrespective of the dividend payments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may however not be so obvious in the up-market years when the NAV is rising. Then, even as dividends are paid, the NAV may still not fall as the market value of the scheme\u2019s securities is going up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, dividend schemes have been marketed to investors during such times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can, however, see the impact of dividends on the Dividend Plan NAV by comparing it with the Growth Plan NAV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the table below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>While the returns under the Growth Plan benefit from a compounding impact too, the 24.8% rise in the NAV (instead of only 11.1%) also reflects the absence of the erosive effect of dividend payouts.<\/b><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-3.png\" alt=\"Monthly Dividend Plans\" width=\"641\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-3.png 641w, https:\/\/www.fundsindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/div-3-300x63.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>\n<h4><b>Our recommendation<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b>We believe dividend-paying options don\u2019t make sense in case of long-term investment products such as equity oriented mutual funds where the equity exposure is 60% or higher.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For such products, investors should opt for the growth option and reap the benefit of their money compounding over the long run.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, the Budget has abolished the dividend distribution tax (DDT) and instead made dividends taxable in the hands of investors at their applicable income tax slab rate. Currently, a fund distributes dividends after deducting a DDT of 11.648% on an equity scheme. Investors do not pay any tax on the dividends received.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>From 1 April 2020, those in the 5% and 10% tax brackets (under the new tax regime) will face a lower dividend tax burden than before. For others, the dividend tax burden will be higher (15% to 30%).\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Investors in the higher tax brackets have therefore, yet another reason to give dividend plans a miss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>If you require regular pay-outs, you can go for an SWP on a debt product (debt funds, fixed deposits). This will be efficient from a tax perspective too.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MF Monthly Dividend Plans are sometimes sold to investors on the pitch that they will offer almost 1% \u2018return\u2019 in the form of dividend payouts every month. That is, a \u2018return\u2019 of around 10-12% for the year. Sounds attractive right? 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