While private equity's pitch is that it offers greater
returns than traditional mutual funds, it may be hard to ensure each plan participant gets the best of what the asset class has to offer.
Not exact matches
Lucas's annualized after - tax
return increases by more
than two percentage points by using a
traditional IRA for his gold
mutual fund investment and more
than three percentage points over a brokerage account by using a
traditional IRA for his investment in gold coins.
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.