Sentences with phrase «fee mutual fund industry»

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The way in which ETFs and mutual funds relate to their investors also explains why there is such a wide gap in the fee structure within both industries.

The industry has reduced its fees within the past two decades but the mutual fund industry still trails the ETF industry.

It's no wonder that John Bogle, «the founder of the Vanguard Group and the man who pioneered the low - cost index fund, has come forward to say the mutual fund and retirement industries collect so much money in fees that the entire system is a «train wreck.»

One of the biggest examples of the industry reacting to changing investor tastes was the move by Investors Group to lower some of its mutual fund fees.

Industry stakeholders feel the current structure of allowing embedded fees in mutual funds that are paid to advisers isn't a problem.

In an industry already complicated by fees - sales loads, soft dollars, trailing fees, 12b - 1 marketing fees - asking mutual funds to prominently disclose trading costs is unpopular among fund companies.

If everybody else in the brokerage industry charges fees for mutual fund trading, we shouldn't really be surprised to see Firstrade changes course.

Cynics might say these newer specialized ETFs tend to carry higher fees and that the industry may be picking up the bad habits of the mutual fund industry, which generally introduces new products whenever it spots a hot new trend that naive investors would be willing to throw money at.

I've made similar points myself about Canada's industry: can the mutual fund industry (which charges fees considerably higher than America's) really be motivated to tell young investors about the existence of lower cost and more tax - efficient ETFs?

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You think the mutual fund industry has high fees, try looking at the bullion dealer's price over spot..

And this estimate does not even include the many trillions of dollars managed by institutional investment managers outside of the mutual fund industry, nor the costs associated with brokerage commissions, transactions fees, custody fees, account fees, and other advisory fees.

If you pay attention to the statements of mutual fund industry trade groups, you may hear claims that mutual fund investment fees have come down (slightly) as a percentage of investor's assets during the last couple decades.

Note that the mutual fund industry will not dispute the fact that the total amount of fees that they collect has risen many times over.

I personally set up our accounts with Vanguard not just because they invented index funds, but also because they're known for having the lowest fees in the industry and they also offer a selection of no - transaction - fee mutual funds and commission free ETFs.

There are enormous problems with the mutual fund industry in Canada: many have extremely high fees, inexcusable sales charges, lousy performance, and aggressive marketing teams.

For do - it - yourself investors interested in mutual funds, there may be no industry practice that's harder to swallow than having to pay a lot of money in hidden «trailer fees.»

Canada's mutual fund industry is mired in a tradition of outrageous fees, hidden sales charges, and self - interested salespeople who have eroded the public's trust.

Canadian business reporters are saying Canada's mutual - fund industry is also in nail - biting mode because Vanguard's fees and expense ratios are considerably lower than the current rates in Canada.

«It is really going to put pressure on the entire industry — both mutual funds and ETFs — to lower fees,» says Morningstar ETF strategist John Gabriel, who added: «Vanguard is more than just another ETF provider coming to the Canadian market.»

However, officials of the mutual fund and banking industries say consumers receive many services, and they claim fees have been declining the last few years.

As a licensed Portfolio Manager and insider of the industry, I was very pleased to read that the Canadian government is finally starting to tackle the unethical practice of hidden mutual fund fees.

The thoughtful, detailed analysis and judgment of the proposed move by the federal government to create a national securities regulator shows how little improvement there really is likely to be for the individual investor in solving key problems: high fees for mutual funds, costly access to government of Canada securities, lack of fiduciary responsibility by the industry towards investors, inadequate civil court recourse against misbehaving financial firms, priority given to financial system protection over investor interests.

Some in the mutual fund industry will tell you that the load is the fee that pays for the service of a broker choosing the correct fund for you.

The industry average fee for a small - cap mutual fund is 1.37 %, but there are ETFs that offer products tracking the S&P SmallCap 600 with expense ratios as low as 0.07 %.

Now, I'm not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to U.S. mutual funds but a quick search revealed plenty of studies on fees paid by mutual fund investors in the U.S. Take this report titled 2010 Investment Company Fact Book put out by the Investment Company Institute — a fund industry association, which casts serious doubt on the validity of the assumption that U.S. investors pay an ~ 5 % front load.

Some critics of the industry say that mutual fund companies get away with the fees they charge only because the average investor does not understand what he / she is paying for.

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Forty years after Bogle launched the world's first tracker in response to research showing that few mutual funds performed well enough to justify their fees, it has become a staple of the average private investor's portfolio and an essential sophisticated tool in the hedge fund and automated investment management industry.

The brokerage industry in general likes things as they are and would certainly make less money if the trailer portion of mutual fund fees were not in place.

Forty years after Bogle launched the world's first tracker in response to research showing that few mutual funds performed well enough to justify their fees, it has become a staple of the private investor's portfolio and an essential sophisticated tool in the hedge fund and investment management industry.

A 1950 snapshot of that tiny mutual fund industry (Figure 3) shows both management fees and total expenses at a reasonably low level, along with a recognition by fund managers that, as their funds grew large (then, «large» meant more than $ 100 million in assets!)

Their commission structure is competitive with the industry for stocks and ETFs, and they don't hit you hard on mutual fund fees.

In the buildup to the regulatory review of trailer fees in Canada, the mutual fund industry is trying to wage an ill - advised battle of misinformation.

In the mutual fund or hedge fund industry, this type of pay for underperformance (or abhorrent performance) fee structure would truly never stand....

At the risk of making an analogy to the cigarette industry and early denial of the harm caused by cigarettes, I hope we stop blowing smoke and make use of the information and data provided by the mutual fund industry that clearly show trailer fees harm Canadian investors.

But increasingly, the mutual fund and ETF industries are offering new products that promise to capture the benefits of hedge funds — which, ostensibly, include low correlation to other asset classes and absolute returns in all market cycles — without the high fees and minimums, low liquidity and manager concentration risk of traditional hedge funds.

«While we continue to remain strongly committed to our national broker / dealer relationships and mutual fund alliances, we can not deny the growing trends in the industry toward fee - based advisers and low net cost investment product alternatives,» said Kendall Chance, National Director of Sales.

At Vanguard, you'll pay nothing to buy and sell our mutual funds and ETFs, our account service fees are easily avoidable, ** and our expense ratios are 82 % less than the industry average.

However, investment science has not detected a relationship between paying higher fees and obtaining better returns from the bond mutual fund industry.