With mutual
fund assets passing the $ 10 trillion mark and growing steadily, critics of this fee are seriously questioning the justification for using it.
Not exact matches
Following the financial crisis, I argued that regulators should look into whether or not the mutual
fund rules and current accounting rules were appropriately structured given the growing presence of firms like Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA), which get a
pass from daily net
asset value calculations and other requirements.
If
fund managers are trying to
pass off some of the best safest
assets today as risky, simply because their mandates restrict them from investing in them, then it's time for us to take back control of our own wealth management.
After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington
Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exi
Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to
pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust
fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exi
fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the
fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exi
fund, perhaps with the instruction that the
assets transfer into an S&P 500 index
fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exi
fund if the Wellington
Fund were to ever cease to exi
Fund were to ever cease to exist).
If you want to leave your children an inheritance, consider this when figuring out which
assets you'll have to
fund your retirement and how much you want left to
pass on, Frankle said.
As each
fund passes its fiscal year - end, the annual expense ratio is calculated by dividing the
fund's operational expenses by its average net
assets.
Each Freedom
Fund's neutral
asset allocation strategy becomes increasingly more conservative as the target date approaches and
passes.
If a
fund has more than 50 % of its
assets invested in foreign securities, the
fund may elect to
pass through this foreign tax expense to its shareholders, giving them the opportunity to claim either a foreign tax credit or a deduction.
What's more, the BMO
fund is quickly gaining in size: it has already
passed $ 900 million in
assets, compared with $ 1.2 billion for XIC.
But if you follow the strategy I mentioned above and put only a portion of your savings into an annuity and invest the remainder in a portfolio of stock and bond
funds, you would still have
assets that you could
pass along to your heirs, assuming you manage withdrawals from your portfolio so you don't deplete it too soon.
Now that the Canadian ETF industry has
passed the magic milestone of $ 100 billion in
assets, the threat to the established mutual
fund industry is palpable
For example, if a bypass trust is originally
funded with
assets worth $ 1 million dollars at your death and appreciates in value to $ 2 million dollars at the time of your surviving spouse's death, then the additional $ 1 million dollars of appreciation is also
passed to the disclaimer trust beneficiaries free of estate taxes.
Once the RRSP or RRIF
assets pass to the survivor, the combined nest egg could subject the remaining partner to «super high tax levels» as RRIF
funds are withdrawn.
When someone
passes away and leaves their stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, properties, and many other
assets to family members, the beneficiary often receives the
assets at a stepped up cost basis.
As time
passes and they approach entering college, the account
assets are automatically adjusted from stock
funds to bonds and / or money market
funds to minimize risk and preserve capital.
If more than 50 % of the value of a
Fund's total
assets at the close of its taxable year consists of securities of foreign corporations, a
Fund may be able to elect to «
pass through» to a
Fund's shareholders the amount of eligible foreign income and similar taxes paid by a
Fund.
Even after the target date
passes, the
asset allocation of the
funds continues to become more conservative.
These regulations are currently published in draft form in the Canada Gazette; if
passed, they will require the applicant to provide a statement of net
assets or of
funding arrangements that demonstrates, to the Board's satisfaction, it is able to pay the applicable amount.
If the report is to be
passed as law, ICO issuers in the country will have to clearly lay out how
funds were raised, how the
assets and profits are to be distributed among investors and the owners of the project; plus, how the ICO - issuing entity will distribute equity and debt.