A study by BrightScope found that stock funds in 401 (k) s with fewer than 100 participants
carried average expense ratios that were roughly 50 % higher than plans with 5,000 to 9,999 participants.
Not exact matches
Take the case with your typical annuity (fixed or variable) that
carries an
average 2 percent to 3 percent annual
expense charge when you consider administrative, mortality and
expense, and mutual fund costs.
Lipper published a study several years ago that estimated the
average mutual fund
carries transaction
expenses of about 0.15 % per year - which can cost investors with larger share holdings thousands of dollars over time.
For international small cap core, though, the chance is 1 in 2 and that's despite the generally high
expenses that the
average fund
carries.
Since they are traded as stocks, ETFs have the same fee schedules as stocks and that makes dollar - cost -
averaging (DCA) ETFs a costly practice as the commission is added on top of the
expense ratio (ER) the ETF
carries (same as mutual funds).
This ETF
carries the highest
expense ratio among micro-cap ETFs, 0.94 % versus Morningstar's small value category
average of just 0.36 %.
Leading packages keep track of unused provisions,
carrying them forward into the future to recover taxes,
averaging out investment or business losses, or maximizing charitable donations or medical
expenses.
Vanguard's
average expense ratio is 0.12 %, and the typical equity mutual fund
carries an
expense ratio of 0.57 %.