When the ETF's investing strategy is straightforward, you have to wonder whether it really makes sense to pay
an index licensing fee.
This ratio includes the management fee, trustee's fee,
index license fee, and 12b - 1 fee, among others.
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.
According to the complaint, eHarmony received a letter dated July 14 asking the company to either shut down its site or pay a
licensing fee for the technology that classifies and
indexes users» personal information.
Any time an ETF or
index fund uses a third - party benchmark, it pays a
licensing fee.
The ETF pays S&P Global a
licensing fee of 0.03 % of assets under management (AUM), plus an annual
fee of $ 600,000, for the right to use the S&P 500 name and duplicate the
index with its ETF, according to its annual reports.
Before the first ETF ever hit the market, S&P agreed to a perpetual
license with Vanguard that entitled the
index owner to a maximum annual fee of $ 50,000 from Vanguard's premier index mutual fund, the Vanguard 500 Index
index owner to a maximum annual
fee of $ 50,000 from Vanguard's premier
index mutual fund, the Vanguard 500 Index
index mutual fund, the Vanguard 500
Index Index Fund.
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.
VIX ETPs are based on VIX futures
indexes with daily rebalancing, subject to management
fees and expenses including commissions and trading
fees,
licensing fees and (for some ETPs) foregone interest income.
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.