Fees are extremely important to take into consideration when evaluating options for retirement, because the effects are
compounded over a long time horizon, and high fees and costs can cause serious harm to your retirement savings.
This can make an even bigger difference if the extra return is
compounded over a longer time horizon until retirement.
The whole point of tax - free
compounding over a long time horizon is that the young can truly generate huge sums if they max out contributions from day one and also invest wisely in diversified equity - heavy portfolios.
Since retirement savings
compound over long time horizons, any inefficiency or trustee bias can significantly affect the employees» wealth at retirement and have larger societal consequences as well.
Not exact matches
Because the
time horizon is so
long for many retirement portfolios, the bite that these fees can take really
compounds over the years.
So both the rate of return, and the length of
compounding have enormous leverage in creating future wealth.Simply stated, if your goal is to accumulate a significant amount of wealth during your lifetime, you must first save something, and then exercise some amount of control
over one of two factors: your
long - term rate of return, or the
time horizon T
over which you
compound your wealth.
It's understanding productive assets and their likely intrinsic value; how they may or may not
compound in intrinsic worth
over a
long time horizon.
Meanwhile, the
compound average annual return of the S&P 500 is more like 10 percent
over a
long -
time horizon.