There is a lot to
like about index funds â $» low costs and low taxes, for starters.
There's a lot to
like about index funds.
Not exact matches
Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk
about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive
index tracking
funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things
like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot
like beta that are really going to struggle.
The other day we talked
about the possibility of
index - y global stock
funds buying mainland Chinese shares at what look
like rather excited prices, and here it is:
These participants constantly buy what they wish they had bought and sell what they are
about to need (
like those investors selling hedge
funds today to chase the hot returns that
index funds achieved over the past five years).
The idea behind
funds like DBC is that they can outperform even an
index holding the exact same commodities by being smarter
about choosing the right futures contract that will deliver the least contango possible.
Yea I'm definitely an
index fund kind of guy too but it's fun to think
about things
like this.
I especially
like his advice
about using
index funds to get started investing.
And I said, «Well, you know, dad,» much
like we've talked
about here, «you can get ETFs that are broadly diversified
index funds that come with low expense ratios.
I recall having bough some Canadian
Index ETFs in my brokerage account, and the account reports were showing some negative amounts in the trading account, and when I asked the brokerage company they mentioned something
about «ETFs doing distributions, exactly
like a classic mutual
fund».
Such
funds will typically charge
about 1 to 1.5 %, whereas
index ETFs fees could be as low as 0.05 % like in the case of Vanguard 500 Index ETF (NYSEARCA:
index ETFs fees could be as low as 0.05 %
like in the case of Vanguard 500
Index ETF (NYSEARCA:
Index ETF (NYSEARCA: VOO).
I would
like to know
about investing in: (1) Gold Mutual
Funds (2) Arbitrage Mutual
Funds (3)
Index Funds Kindly guide w.r.t the above options and viability of the same w.r.t returns and risk.
I'm not sure such expertise exists at all — and given that the
fund in question under - performed a vanilla bond
index when managed by the so - called professionals, I'm highly skeptical that if such expertise does exist that a small firm
like WS will suddenly possess it in - house... and Eric Kirzner has been there since the beginning, which I should stop ranting
about in the footnote.
And now, on to part 2: Free Money Finance (FMF): You tend to not
like index funds, preferring managed
funds because «someone feels strongly
about» the stocks in managed
funds while
index fund stocks are selected automatically.
I subscribe to the adage that you invest in an excellent
index fund like VFINX and forget
about day trading and trying to make short term gains.
I'd love to see some hard statistics on this, for sure, but this is a point that many «indexers» and passive investors
like to boast
about when justifying their love for
index funds or
index ETFs.
If you're looking for substantially more yield than what's on offer from the broader market (Standard & Poor's 500 - stock
index delivers
about 1.9 % at present), you'll want to look at so called «high dividend»
funds like the HDV.
Although Graham did not live to see the explosion of
index funds that originated with John Bogle at Vanguard in 1975, indications are that he would have found much about them to like, as Jason Zwieg (2015) pointed out in his article «Would Benjamin Graham Have Hated Index Funds?&r
index funds that originated with John Bogle at Vanguard in 1975, indications are that he would have found much about them to like, as Jason Zwieg (2015) pointed out in his article «Would Benjamin Graham Have Hated Index Funds?&r
funds that originated with John Bogle at Vanguard in 1975, indications are that he would have found much
about them to
like, as Jason Zwieg (2015) pointed out in his article «Would Benjamin Graham Have Hated
Index Funds?&r
Index Funds?&r
Funds?»
I don't know much
about fundadvice.com, but it makes sense that they should buy something simple
like index funds with low low fees and decent enough returns.
I went for the
index fund because it seemed
like a safe choice for someone
like me with little knowledge
about investing, and
about the choices before me.
I would
like to get involved in
index funds or low cost start up stocks I do not have a lot of money but have been eggar to learn and praying
about this.
[0:04:34] MM: Nice and that is one of the nice things
about ETF's is they're pretty low cost comparatively speaking even when you compare them to an
index fund and what makes some a little bit easier than an
index fund is you can trade them
like stocks but are there pitfalls to that Stuart?
While ShareOwner offers
about 50 ETFs for trading, it's not an ideal platform for investing in these
index funds that trade
like a stock.
@ TX —
index funds aren't
about hitting homeruns, they're
about hitting singles with low costs making them into more
like doubles.
I'm just learning
about low - cost
index funds and it seems
like other financial institutions have much lower MERs — but is that because they charge additional feeds on top of the MER?
Stable
index funds have historically returned
about 7 % every year on average and are a good place to park your money — not an unpredictable, wildly unstable asset
like Bitcoin.