New Delhi, May 19 -- If you continue to invest in one mutual fund scheme in small doses, it can - and often does - grow to a large corpus over a period of time. This multiplier effect is referred to as 'compounding' in the investing parlance.

This means growth of investment in the first few years gets added to the principal amount. And the return on initial investment in the later years gets added to it, thus accelerating the pace of return. The effect of compounding is so potent that - it is metaphorically also referred to as 'magic'.

Here, we handpick one mutual fund and monitor its return since its inception and estimate the overall growth of the corpus if someone had been investing since the launch of the scheme.

If someone were in...