I have said many times in this series on my blog: most people should buy a diversified portfolio
of low fee index funds / ETFs.
To put things in perspective consider that the average mutual fund charges 0.9 % relative to the
average low fee index which charges 0.1 %.
And so more advisors are
using low fee index funds but then charging a 1 % management fee on top of the low index fund fee.
For example, BMO now offers ETFs, TD has its e-series and ING Direct (soon to be owned by Scotia)
offers low fee index funds.
2017 Yale endowment report rebuts Warren Buffett's 2016 Berkshire Hathaway investor letter that «financial «elites»», including endowments, are better off investing
in low fee index products and not «wasting» money on active managers» hefty fees.
That strategy is also how Patrick believes O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, as an active investment manager of $ 6.2 billion, will remain relevant in a world where investors have gravitated toward passive,
low fee index investing.
2017 Yale endowment report rebuts Warren Buffett's 2016 Berkshire Hathaway investor letter that «financial «elites»», including endowments, are better off investing in
low fee index products and not «wasting» money on active managers» hefty fees.
But I see a worrisome trend in the asset management business — high fee advisors
endorsing low fee indexing and selling it as something different from «active» management.
Also if they
held low fee index mutual funds or Tips and then switched to ETFs once these were more available, that is fine too.
If you don't understand what Howard Marks says about mispriced assets, do yourself a favor and buy a diversified portfolio
of low fee index funds / ETFs since you are not a candidate to be a successful active investor.
Unfortunately any investor must still choose how to diversify, so they still must learn to make sound investing decisions (portfolio asset allocation requires that an investor actively make certain choices even if it is to
buy low fee index funds / ETfs).
So, what you actually end up owning is
a low fee indexing strategy wrapped inside of a high fee asset management service.
As the indexing revolution has swept over these firms the high fee closet indexing mutual funds have been increasingly swapped out for
the low fee index funds.
Unfortunately, what we're seeing across the business today often involves an advisor who charges the same 1 % + fee that the mutual fund charged, but they're selling it within the «
low fee indexing» pitch.
The chart above shows the impact of a diversified portfolio with an average annual return of 7 % in
a low fee index relative to the same portfolio with a 1 % and 2 % fee drag.
Low fee index funds are a great place to start.
That's a lot of money... I paid nearly ten times the fees when I first started investing and I'm really glad we moved to
low fees index funds.
Within two weeks, I had everything moved into sweet,
low fee index funds.
Within two weeks, I had everything moved into sweet,
low fee index funds.
Over a long time horizon, which we have, cost averaging and
low fee index funds, the opportunity to grow wealth is huge!
Just as with the 401K, invest your funds into
a low fee index fund like a S&P 500 index fund.
Low fee index funds are a great place to start.
I also gather that Vanguard has started to make some inroads in Canada, I hope they gain some traction with
their low fee index offerings.
This portfolio invests in a globally diversified set of
low fee index funds that are designed to be overweight stocks during the business cycle's expansion phases with a reduced overweight to stock market risk during the contraction phase of the business cycle.
To minimize risk in my retirement accounts, I follow another Warren Buffet investing tip: I put the bulk of my long - term investments is
low fee index funds.
The S&P 500 has a compound annual growth rate of 9.94 % since 1970, so it would seem that it could be easy to buy
a low fee index fund and make more than 2.875 %.
Consider either a robo - advisor like Nest, WealthSimple or Invisor, or a firm that offers
a low fee index fund, like the TD e-series funds, which can charge as little as 0.32 %.
Andrew Hallam says,
LOW FEE INDEX FUNDS.
If you can't handle mistakes, Munger suggests that you buy a diversified portfolio of
low fee index funds and leave active investing to others.
Warren Buffett points out a paradox: by understanding they are the dumb money by purchasing
a low fee index fund, «know - nothing investors» become the smart money.
For many investors this would typically mean being invested in a number of
low fee index funds that will keep your fees to a minimum and help you stay with the market as opposed to paying more to try and beat the market.
I'm in the process of switching my 60 year old mother's high fee managed accounts to
a low fee index funds with both Vanguard and Charles Schwab.
The argument goes that a typical investor would do better to purchase a term life insurance policy and invest the premium difference in
a low fee index fund or mutual fund.
Phrases with «low fee index»