That simply isn't the case: In 2015 the Institute for Sustainable Investing at Morgan Stanley found that sustainable equity mutual funds had equal or higher median returns with equal or lower
volatility than traditional mutual funds over a majority of the time studied.
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.
This insight is fundamental to the way we develop and manage TD Low Volatility Funds that each aim to deliver competitive returns with more
stability than traditional mutual fund investments.
These products cost less
than traditional mutual funds, which have MERs of about 2.4 %.
Remember, the ETF's themselves do charge fees to operate, but these are far lower
than traditional mutual fund fees.