Although Vanguard has been tight - lipped about the specifics, the consensus is they moved away from MSCI benchmarks to lower
their index licensing costs.
Not exact matches
If the sales chump (er, I mean «
licensed professional financial adviser») can't give you a complete and total rundown of every fee (expense, charge, penalty,
cost or whatever other lame - ass euphemism he wants to use), run away and invest in a Vanguard
index fund — just compare the expense ratio.
This section includes guides to economic analysis and forecasts and related financial and economic data;
cost of living, consumer price
index, and inflation data; bond yields and interest rates;
cost of equity capital and related information such as equity risk premiums and size premiums; and royalty rates and
license fees for intangible assets and intellectual property such as patents and trademarks.
Another
cost creep factor is the
cost to
license indexes.
Already we're seeing a move toward fewer third - party
indexes, which may
cost a few basis points in
licensing fees but also offer an extra layer of accountability that investors should welcome.
The
costs of the ICBT and IBSM were modelled as a function of therapist time using the same healthcare
index to determine therapist tariffs, that is, tariffs for
licensed psychologists.