Therefore, it was with much anticipation that I read Mackenzie's latest «research» report titled Canadian Mutual
Fund Ownership Costs: Competitive Relative to the U.S..
Commenting on the MFDA - mandated Report on Charges and Other Compensation (RCC), the paper proposed several enhancements to inform clients of other ongoing
fund ownership costs aside from trailing commissions.
Now the consumer advocates at Mackenzie have released a new report called Canadian Mutual
Fund Ownership Costs: Competitive Relative to the U.S..
Not exact matches
Every
funding decision is a complex tradeoff between near - term and longer - term
costs and paybacks, as well as overall
ownership and control.
The
fund costs 0.95 % in expense ratio, and trades with an average spread of 0.05 %, putting its total
cost of
ownership at around $ 100 per $ 10,000 invested.
Lower payments would help home buyers afford the expenses of home
ownership — from closing
costs to homeowner's insurance to emergency
funds.
Finally, this is one piece of advice that is likely to do you well if you've chosen to build a long - term, conservative investment portfolio based upon dollar
cost averaging, low -
cost ownership methods such as a dividend reinvestment program (also known as a DRIP account), and do not expect to retire or need the
funds for ten years or more, the best course of action based upon historical experience may be to go on autopilot.
Or, does the Fed's easy - money policy deregulation of oversight open the way for asset - price inflation that puts home
ownership even further out of reach — except at the price of running up a lifetime of debt to the banks that write the loans on their keyboard at steep markups over their
cost of
funding from the compliant Fed?
Vanguard's unique
ownership structure — the company is owned by its
funds and in turn its unit holders — allows it to limit
costs to about one - tenth of the industry average in the U.S..
If we build on the previous example and say that each share of the
fund costs $ 5.50, then the shareholder can participate in
ownership of 1,000 different securities for mere pennies compared to the commission
cost that would be required to purchase even a single share of each of the stocks held by the
fund, not even counting the
cost of each share itself.
The total
cost of
ownership depends upon how much your adviser is charging you, so it would be unfair to compare F - series
funds to standard mutual
funds, straight up.
Here are the specific findings from the report, showing the average annual
cost of
ownership of advisor - sold mutual
funds in Canada:
Like any other type of investment, some basic research is needed to look into past performance, total
costs of
ownership and the
fund management team.
American
Funds reports that low cost funds with high levels of manager ownership are at least as g
Funds reports that low
cost funds with high levels of manager ownership are at least as g
funds with high levels of manager
ownership are at least as great.
One section suggested that account statements include an accounting of
fund management expense ratios (MERs) to better remind clients of the ongoing
costs related to
fund ownership.
While
ownership costs are similarly transparent across the three structures, mutual
funds and NextShares offer full transparency of investor trading
costs and ETFs do not.
The report claims to make an «apples to apples» comparison of advisor sold mutual
funds in the United States and Canada and concludes that the «average Canadian pre-GST COO [
Cost of
Ownership] falls within the range of U.S. managers».
I'm not sure about the availability of index
funds for Netherlands investors, but in general your
costs are much lower buying low -
cost passively managed
funds compared to trying to mirror the share
ownership pattern yourself.
Others can mirror their index
funds and even match the expense ratios, but the customer - as - shareholder
ownership structure of Vanguard ensures they will always be genuine,
cost - efficient custodians of your money.
No matter how you look at it, the
cost of
ownership for American
Funds is about as high as it gets - when it comes to the money that goes to people that don't have anything to do with getting better investment performance (the actual
fund managers).
Each company in the S&P 500 Index has its own embedded compensation expenses, and Wintergreen Advisers» research strongly suggests that S&P 500 index
funds, whose significant
ownership weighting is often enough to influence the result of the shareholder vote, enable significant hidden
costs that investors unknowingly pay.
Then you should question your financial advisor on why you were sold such mediocre - performing mutual
funds, which lack the asset classes needed to lower risk through diversification, and have such high
costs of
ownership.
Enhanced enforcement of dog license laws, with adequate fees to augment animal control budgets and surcharges on
ownership of unaltered dogs to help
fund low -
cost pet sterilization programs in the communities in which the fees are collected.
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