There are other factors at play, including property taxes, repairs and other «drags» that renters don't have, not to mention the opportunity cost of the down payment itself invested in
the same equity index fund that you use to make the case for a 30 year mortgage payment example.
Not exact matches
«The market is fragmented and inefficient, and traditional
indexes are poorly designed,» he said, but he added that higher - fee active bond
funds run into the
same problem as active
equity funds.
Case in point: By their titles, one would expect Mutual of America Institutional
Funds, Inc.: Mid-Cap
Equity Index Fund (MAMQX) and Fidelity Salem Street Trust: Spartan Mid Cap Index Fund (FSMDX) to track the same i
Index Fund (MAMQX) and Fidelity Salem Street Trust: Spartan Mid Cap
Index Fund (FSMDX) to track the same i
Index Fund (FSMDX) to track the
same indexindex.
Coming from a background analysing non-
equity funds with much lower volatility, someone who can outperform an
equity index with significantly less vol appeals much more than the
same outperformance but with greater than
index volatility.
If you want to maintain the
same equity exposure (to allow for a rebound) as you had inside the
fund, simply sell the
fund and purchase low - cost
index funds / ETFs that approximate the
fund's composition.
The basic concepts are the
same: broad diversification, using
index funds with low cost, occasional rebalancing between
equities (for growth), and fixed income (for ballast - stability).