Sentences with phrase «time than index fund»

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«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

The gist of these studies is this: Over time, investors who buy and hold long - term investments, and specifically low - cost index funds, earn more money than investors chasing the latest investment trend.

According to the complaint, an index fund - based suite of target - date funds offered by Fidelity Investments yielded, on average, more than 4.5 times the returns of the suite of Intel TDPs.

As a result, actively managed fund are seven and a half times (on average) more costly than index funds.

Mutual funds have much higher management fees than index funds and almost always will make you less money over longer periods of time.

The most popular basket commodities fund, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (NYSEArca: DBC), has over $ 7 billion in assets under management — more than three times the assets of the iPath Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: DJP) and nearly six times the assets of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (NYSEArca: Gfund, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (NYSEArca: DBC), has over $ 7 billion in assets under management — more than three times the assets of the iPath Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: DJP) and nearly six times the assets of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (NYSEArca: GFund (NYSEArca: DBC), has over $ 7 billion in assets under management — more than three times the assets of the iPath Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: DJP) and nearly six times the assets of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (NYSEArca: GSG).

«But we're providing more of a managed - account product than a classic index - fund product,» he said in a MarketWatch.com story at the time.

Rather than trying to time the market or pick the right stock, Bernstein said, it makes more sense to put your money in boring, plain vanilla index mutual funds and ETFs.

A mutual fund / index fund likely has many times more risk than a simple guaranteed interest - earning investment.

An extremely overdiversified active fund manager is called a closet indexer: he or she holds a portfolio that closely resembles the benchmark, while charging fees that can be 20 times higher than an index fund.

As long as we are not frequently buying and selling to try and time the market, our turnover can remain as low, if not lower than an index fund.

How many times have you been to a gathering where someone bragged that they're paying less than 0.20 % for a total stock market index fund?

This explains a good deal of the secret sauce of index funds — the average actively managed fund has an expense ratio 10 to 15 times higher than that of a comparable index fund.

The Prosper loans take a lot of time to select and manage — at least more than index funds do.

While he trails the Vanguard fund above half the time, the magnitude of his «wins» over the index fund is far greater than the size of his losses.

Yet while index mutual funds owned the same stocks in the same proportions as their ETF counterparts, what ETFs offered was the ability to trade those fund shares in real time on stock exchanges, rather than having to wait until the end of the day to buy or sell.

Because the assets tracking cap - weighted indexes are so much greater than those tracking fundamental - weighted indexes ($ 7 trillion vs. approximately $ 100 billion), the market impact model predicts that the costs of cap - weighted index investing would be substantially greater, in fact, roughly 25 times greater, than those of fundamental - weighted index funds.

The Large Cap Fund normally invests at least 80 % of its net assets in equity securities, consisting of domestic common and preferred stocks of large capitalization («large - cap») companies — a company, at time of purchase by the Fund, with a market capitalization greater than or equal to the lesser of $ 10 billion or the median market capitalization of companies in the S&P 500 Index.

If one of the greatest investors of all time, Warren Buffett suggests people go for low cost index funds... then chances are that's better advice to follow than the advice of some guy trying to sell you high fee mutual funds.

You don't even need complicated science to conclude that investing in low - cost index funds is almost certain to generate higher long - term returns than investing in high - cost actively - managed mutual funds (where the managers try to beat the market by stock selection or market timing).

I am learning to like the stock market, although I was only limiting my investments to index funds for a long time, as I didn't want to take the time to research investments well enough to make investing something other than a casino gamble.

I've several times repeated my advice on investing in individual stocks: do it if you enjoy it, but don't expect to do better than index funds over the long haul.

Do - it - yourself individual investors buying individual securities rather than investment funds demonstrably under - perform passive index fund benchmarks — especially as the time period increases.

In other words, after two volatile days — up 10 % one day, down 10 % the next — your losses are four times greater than the losses incurred by an investor in an ordinary index fund (he lost $ 1; you've lost $ 4).

The safest, most reliable way to ensure good returns over time is to try to match the market returns — through low - cost index funds — rather than attempting to beat the market.

For large one - time purchases (as opposed to smaller monthly purchases), I really like ETFs due to their slightly lower expense ratios than traditional open - end index funds.

This is particularly true for large investors such as the Principal CITs (which at all relevant times had over $ 2 billion invested in index fund investments), that can leverage their billions in investable assets to negotiate lower fees than what is available to the vast majority of investors.

As we've covered in the past, actively managed stock portfolios where «experts» try to time the ups and downs of individual stocks get lower returns than passive index funds.

Mutual funds are 6 -10 times more expensive than ETFs because they hire pros who try to select a few stocks within the index that will «beat» it.

For many of us, it is best buy a low cost index fund and stick with it through good and tough times (something that 401k plans are designed to do better than a brokerage account).

Another option for low cost index funds is Altimera — last time I checked they had a Precision series which had mers of less than 1 % — You will pay a bit more in mer but I'm positive they can handle the extra grants.

Stock funds average expenses are.90 %, considerably higher than indexed funds and if you buy funds with front end loads you could pay as high as 5 % or more just for this one time charge.

The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Admiral fund, a fund that simply invests in the broad US stock market, has an expense ratio of 0.05 %, almost four times less than the Target Ffund, a fund that simply invests in the broad US stock market, has an expense ratio of 0.05 %, almost four times less than the Target Ffund that simply invests in the broad US stock market, has an expense ratio of 0.05 %, almost four times less than the Target FundFund.

I would contend that it would take more time to do due diligence on funds than it does on broad based index ETFs (or low cost index funds).

Indexed funds typically have the lowest management fees and in the private sector they average.15 % or $ 1.50 per $ 1,000 invested according to a recent article in Money Magazine; five times more than what the TSP charges.

Some of those retail mutual funds that are trying to time the market will have a higher cost than, say, a lot of index funds, and ETFs, which are basically buying just an index, if you will, and not really trying to buy and sell to time the market.

In fact, a recent Fidelity survey found that many investors think index funds, which attempt to match a market benchmark like the S&P 500 (before fees), are less risky than active funds, which attempt to outperform a benchmark.1 That may help explain why during 11 weeks of heightened market volatility in 2015, investors bought index funds but sold active funds at seven times the average rate during nonvolatile weeks.2

I began saving in 2001 and I've done better than that with mutual fund / index fund investing through my employer's funds for most of that time.

Because short - term capital gains are taxed at your ordinary income tax rate (as opposed to long - term capital gains, which are currently taxed at a maximum rate of 20 %), you'll end up paying more taxes with actively managed funds than you would with index funds, which typically hold their investments for longer periods of time.

Editorially, Kiplinger's magazine has championed over the decades a number of personal finance strategies and investment products that later became popular «conventional wisdom»: the superiority of systematic investing (dollar cost averaging) over market timing; growth stocks that paid little or no dividends but invested in new technologies; mutual funds, especially no - load funds; stock index funds; term life insurance, rather than whole - life; and global investing.

I'd rather pay 100 bps for an S&P 500 index fund trading at 12 times normalized earnings than 5 basis points for the same market trading at 25 times earnings, which it does as of March 2016.

But seg funds impose very high fees — as much as 4 % a year, which is substantially more than the 2 % to 2.5 % that most mutual funds charge, and four to 10 times what index funds bill you.

At least your index fund won't get so easily gamed, and given the small cap effect over time, you'll probably do better than the S&P 500, even excluding the effects of gaming.

Clearly an index fund has a much lower MER, but if you have a large portfolio, then even a 0.5 % MER can be more than a one - time transaction fee.

Stock portfolios should thus do better than index funds if you can just let your System 2 do the thinking, and individual stocks give you other advantages such as better control over timing of realizing gains & losses, etc..

So joining the market with index funds would generate better yields over time than any financial wizard could.

The companies and money managers who run actively managed mutual funds — and charge fees and management expenses many times higher than those for index funds — have often argued that one - year returns aren't a fair snapshot of their long - term performance.

One may argue that holding cash is safer than buying an index fund (or stock, ETF, mutual fund, etc), and financially that may be true over a given period of time (for instance, the USD beat the SPY for the year of 2008).

There are times when gold does much better than gold mining stocks, but in the long run you're much better off buying precious - metal mining stocks — and in Canada, you've already got that if you own a broad - market index fund.»