Item No. 3 is the commission, paid when buying and selling (unless your brokerage offers commission-free trades).
In all investments the sin of commission, buying late and selling too early is easier to live with but you must never look back.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed speculative buying, in one of its weekly commitment of traders reports, was at a record level and Barclays Capital said gold ETF holdings are at a record.
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Certainly in the U.S. several major firms have faced sanctions for repeatedly selling over-priced, under-performing, richly commissioned in-house funds where customers would have been far better off going to Vanguard and buying a low-cost, no commission index fund.
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Ashley Fox says he has written to the European Commission to ask whether the Welsh Government buying the airport breaches EU state aid rules.
Even the recent historic Mar. 4 poll for Thailand's upper house -- which people somehow thought would be clean -- saw dozens of putative Senators put on hold by the Election Commission subject to investigation into vote-buying allegations.
Rics says neglecting to commission a survey creates a "home-buying time bomb".
Late last month, the Federal Trade Commission released a report on the growing business of buying bad debt, using data from the largest buyers.
The FA is under investigation by the Charity Commission who say the Association has not informed those buying tickets what proportion of the cost is going to charity.
The Commission says the FA is required by law to inform those buying tickets what proportion of the cost is going to charity - but it has not complied with the requirement.
In these cases, the ETF becomes riskier than the index it tracks and a lack of commission may not be enough to justify the additional risk over buying a mutual fund that tracks the same index.
In a disclosure likely to send ripples (of laughter that is) through the investment community, the Securities and Exchange Commission said recently that the independence of Wall Street research analysts may be compromised when theyprofit personally by buying stock in companies they cover.
Hence her refusal to endorse unlimited bond buying by the ECB and her dismissal of jointly guaranteed eurobonds, an idea touted again this week by the European Commission.
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