Here are the most common objections you're likely to hear from advisers if
you ask about index funds, and some suggestions for how to respond.
Not exact matches
I got in touch with L&G in 2014 to
ask them
about the average duration of holdings in the Global Inflation Linked Bond
Index Fund, they responded that it was 8.20.
I recall having bough some Canadian
Index ETFs in my brokerage account, and the account reports were showing some negative amounts in the trading account, and when I
asked the brokerage company they mentioned something
about «ETFs doing distributions, exactly like a classic mutual
fund».
I was
asked on Quora to answer a question
about hedging against losses... How can one hedge against a significant loss in Vanguard's Total Stock market
Index Fund?
Asked whether these study results are yet another argument in favor of passive
index funds over actively managed
funds, Kinnel says, «It's
about low cost, not active versus passive.»
When Mary Long - Schimanke read
about the Couch Potato portfolio in MoneySense, she went to a bank that offers
index funds and
asked how she could buy them.