Even a 1
percent difference in fees can translate to tens of thousands of dollars over time.
Not exact matches
If returns are going to be 7 or 8
percent and you're paying 1
percent for
fees, that makes an enormous
difference in how much money you're going to have
in retirement.»
And over a period of several decades (we're talking about retirement after all), a single
percent difference in your average investment return because of bank
fees can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At the same time, over the course of a 40 - year career, the
difference between one or two
percent in fees can translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars
in lost retirement savings.
There will be some
differences perhaps
in certain
fees but it's likely everyone is within 0.125
percent of one another.