Before an investor can short a stock, he is supposed to borrow the shares and pay a broker or stockholder a fee.
The cost of a fund includes the sales load (if you buy through a broker) or transaction fee (if you buy through a fund supermarket).
The Chinese company becomes the majority shareholder, a broker is paid a fee for the introduction, and an 8-k (material change in the company) is filed.
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One thing to resist when you invest in stocks is to pay a broker or fund manager a fee.
The buyer knew about the broker's 1% fee on the loan amount.
By taking the higher-risk strategy of owning the goods and reselling them rather than acting as a fee-based broker, Via Trading is positioned to benefit from high markups on goods such as tools, electronics and clothing.
Not wanting to lose out completely, we contacted a customer who we knew wanted the book, and offered to broker the deal for a small fee.
In regular short-selling, the trader borrows shares for a fee from his prime broker and sells them, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price and reap the profit on the difference.
This open-ended or unlimited fee structure is common among broker-consultants at the large wirehouses who tend to prey upon smaller funds.
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Since a broker, if one is involved, receives a fee from the mutual fund instead of charging a load, this could be causing average fees to rise (loads are not included in most expense ratios).
He still owns 100% of Tradebot but no longer manages the firm. (He claims that Bats and Tradebot extend no preferential treatment to each other.) The acquisitions by Nasdaq erased two possible competitors, and soon after that Nasdaq eliminated the low fee structures at the ECNs that had once attracted broker-dealers.
If you purchase your mutual fund through a retail broker, there is likely a 25 basis point (.25 percent) recurring annual fee tacked on.
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For the right fund, an NTF fee is cheaper for the sponsor than advertising, and cheaper for the investor than going through a broker.
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