Total return figures for a fund assume that the distributions it pays are:
Total return assumes distributions are reinvested (or credited to the investor); this is why accumulation and distribution classes of the same fund can show different price charts but a similar total return.
Assuming income is dropped from total return, when total return credits distributions to the investor.
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