UPDATE: I sent the author of the article and email and asked
him about the expense ratios for the State Farm funds.
Hmmm... my former investment advisor told me not to worry
about expense ratios because it's accounted for in the performance of the fund.
I was so excited because he wanted to learn
about expense ratios, commissions, fees, and more.
But there is nothing passive
about their expense ratios which exceed 100 basis points.
Not exact matches
«Get a good handle on what your
expenses are, and if you're really serious
about retiring early, you need to save a lot of your income,» McCurry said, adding that
about 50 percent would be an ideal savings
ratio.
In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by
about the same percentage, with an
expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.
On average, mobile advances like these could help generate an average global
expense ratio improvement of
about 500 basis points, from 58 % to 53 % as banks reduce the costs of the branch network and the costs of shipping and storing cash and checks.
Editor's Note: CEF Advisors does not ignore
expense ratios but we tend to care more
about relative NAV performance, which nets out
expenses.
That additional interest
expense is going to hit the coverage
ratio even though nothing else
about the business has changed.
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Read detailed information
about index mutual funds with some of the lowest
expense ratios in their categories, and learn
about their pros and cons.
Couldn't agree more
about HSAs and
expense ratios, but your whole comment is filled with solid advice.
What we like
about Vanguard the most is their ownership structure and low
expense ratios.
The Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund offers an attractive
expense ratio of only.24 % which is
about 82 % lower than the the average fees of similar funds.
But
expense ratios alone don't tell you the full story
about how much an ETF really costs.
Going back to your post a couple days ago where Bob Brown gave his forecast for equity returns of
about 6 % (3.2 % after tax and inflation), if you give up another 2 % + in
expense ratio, an investor might as well put their money in long term certificates of deposit and eliminate risk.
For example, if you had $ 10,000 invested in a fund with an
expense ratio of 0.20 %, you'd pay
about $ 20 a year out of your investment returns.
IGIH's
expense ratio is
about equal to its most direct competitor.
And you care a lot less
about annual
expense ratio.
Applying each fund's
expense ratio (they vary from 0.57 to 0.66) to its assets, I believe Fidelity shareholders are paying
about $ 295 million a year for these funds.
The reductions are
about 15 basis points, which translates to a drop in the funds»
expense ratios of
about 10 %.
Applying individual
expense ratios (they vary from 0.16 % to 0.18 %) to the assets in each leads me to believe Vanguard shareholders pay
about $ 138 million a year.
Each index fund's prospectus explains its approach to selecting investments, in addition to its
expense ratio, historical returns, risk profile, and other required information
about the fund.
From the group above, I have chosen to write
about Utility Select Sector SPDR ETF because of its high dividend yield, great liquidity, and low
expense ratio.
It's all
about finding the correct income:
expense ratio so you don't need to spend so much time paying bills.
Funds such as the Tangerine Balanced Portfolio or the Mawer Balanced Fund Class A are good choices, both with management
expense ratios of
about 0.8 per cent annually — a fairly low amount.
If you tend to overspend and have no control over your income and
expenses, you need to learn
about budgeting and other money management procedures that will help you improve your income to spending
ratio thus providing you with sufficient remaining income to start eliminating debt by paying it off.
Its average company size is
about $ 51 billion, it charges slightly lower
expenses than VOOV and has a slightly lower price - to - book
ratio.
This was the case at my former employer who had
about a dozen actively managed funds (they weren't index funds) with fees under the average
expense ratios of typical actively managed funds and performance on par with its benchmarks - so you get actively managed while paying near index fund prices.
For those that are looking at their mutual fund, keep in mind that the
expense ratio is actually only
about 1/3 the cost to the owner.
The
expense ratio of Birla SL MIP — 25 is
about 0.89 %.
You can find details
about these fees in a fund's prospectus, along with its
expense ratio.
(You can actually get lower
expense ratios by using their brokerage account to trade the ETF versions of their funds commission - free, though you'll have to worry more
about the actual number of shares you want to buy, instead of just plopping in and out dollar amounts).
Unfortunately, Canada's mutual funds boast some of the highest management
expense ratios (MERs) in the world: on average, actively managed portfolio cost investors
about 2.5 % of their assets every year.
Did I ask
about management
expense ratios (MERs) on the funds our adviser recommended?
And when we think
about transaction costs and
expense ratios remembering the funds, an ETF or a mutual fund, it's their
expense ratio that they own, to use a certain phrase, but sometimes the transaction costs are not the funds necessarily.
Jim Rowley: I was going to say, one maybe the audience would find interesting and we had the question earlier
about do ETFs have
expense ratios?
And I said, «Well, you know, dad,» much like we've talked
about here, «you can get ETFs that are broadly diversified index funds that come with low
expense ratios.
About 78 % of these AUM are in stocks, and about 85 % in low - cost mutual funds with an average expense ratio of 0.
About 78 % of these AUM are in stocks, and
about 85 % in low - cost mutual funds with an average expense ratio of 0.
about 85 % in low - cost mutual funds with an average
expense ratio of 0.39 %.
Furthermore, with an
expense ratio of 60 basis points, the product is
about 12 basis points more expensive than others in the category which offer more diversification such as IXN or IYW.
Assuming you invest that same $ 1200 in an index fund with a 0.15 % annual
expense ratio and you will only pay
about $ 2 in fees.
MF's charge an MER (Management
Expense Ratio) of
about 3 % * which you do not see * to manage your money.
The 15 ETFs attracted assets of
about $ 100 million, which at the ETFs» extremely low
expense ratios apparently produced far too little revenue to keep the ETFs afloat.
It has a yield of
about 2.5 %, which isn't bad, and an
expense ratio of 0.48 %.
My old company's plan was a good one with low fees but I still paid
about.5 % a year of these fees on top of my fund
expense ratios.
But just now I read
about difference in Direct and Regular plans and how difference in
expense ratio between the two can effect returns.
What do you think
about the Schwab ETF's that you can trade commission - free and have lower
expense ratios than Vanguard and Fidelity?
For example, if you had $ 10,000 invested in a portfolio with an
expense ratio of 0.20 %, you'd pay
about $ 20 a year out of your investment returns.
The
expense ratio for the iREIT fund is a bit on the higher side at 0.55 % and yields
about 5.9 %.
The primary reason why the average mutual fund
expense ratio has come down in the past, albeit only slightly, is that a substantial minority of all individual investors has gotten smarter
about excessive investment costs.