An investment of 10 Lakhs in a good piece of Real Estate in India in 1998 would've grown to about 1.8 Crores by 2015. That's an 18X return over that 20 year period. If you were however unlucky enough to have put that 1 Lakh in an equity mutual fund, which had the poorest performance over the same period, how much do you suppose your return would have been?