By adopting investment strategies that track passive indexes rather than requiring active management, ETFs don't have to pay as much for
frequent trading expenses, and they generally don't pay managers as much to implement those strategies as they would to come up with their own independent investment ideas.
Not exact matches
One Morningstar study showed that during a period when the underlying portfolio assets were up 9 % or 10 %, the average investor earned 2 % to 3 % because of
frequent trading, high
expenses, and other stupid decisions.
Many inverse ETFs utilize daily futures contracts to produce their returns, and this
frequent trading often increases fund
expenses.
High - yield funds require a very active management style, which can mean
expense ratios of 2 to 3 % to compensate for the fees generated by
frequent trading of assets.
Frequent trading into and out of a Fund can harm all Fund shareholders by disrupting the Fund's investment strategies, increasing Fund
expenses, decreasing tax efficiency and diluting the value of shares held by long - term shareholders.
If you factor in fees charged,
expenses of
frequent trading, and the excess tax liabilities, they almost never produce extra returns to the investor over what could have been obtained with a «do it yourself» (DIY) indexing approach.