While it is, factually, true that stock funds have had some strong inflows of late, it certainly has not been at the expense of bond funds.

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One way I trim the fees charged by fund companies on my retirement accounts is to invest in a handful of stock and bond index funds, which carry expense ratios ranging from .05 percent to .16 percent.

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The expense ratio for leading NTF bond funds at these shops averages 0.66%, while the average cost of bond funds on the Forbes Best Buy list is 0.37%.

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The average expense ratio for an actively managed bond fund is 0.75 percent, according to Morningstar.

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The four iShares index funds (see table below), issued by the Global Investors unit of Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ), sport a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.15 versus open-end bond fund averages of around 1.00 and the 0.20 charged by low-cost leader Vanguard.

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The fund's shares for individual investors charge an expense ratio of 1.3%, steep for a bond fund.

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If you're in the danger zone, try to limit deductions that aren't allowed in AMT--for example, unreimbursed employee business expenses. (Ask for a bigger expense account instead of a raise.) And pick your muni bond funds carefully: Certain muni interest is taxed in the AMT.

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