By way of review, here are 5 reasons that investors should look to exchange - traded funds for investment success,
rather than traditional mutual funds:
Not exact matches
Andrew: For investors dollar - cost - averaging into or out of something, I think it may be best to use
traditional mutual funds rather than ETFs so as to eliminate the commissions completely.
First, Upgrading primarily uses
traditional mutual funds rather than ETFs, and
traditional funds require minimum investment amounts.
Rather than picking stocks directly or using
mutual funds where a manager is trading stocks on behalf of similarly minded investors,
traditional index
funds aim to replicate the returns of any given benchmark while aiming to minimize both costs and something called tracking error.