That means broker sold funds cost clients 10 times more than an ETF tracking a similar group of stocks.
Jason Zweig also investigated this issue in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, When Cheap Funds Cost Too Much.
Some of the cheapest index funds cost double that price or more.
Then fill in the allocation with low cost funds since low cost has been one of the best indicators of superior future performance.
At ShareBuilder, we provide people the ability to choose exchange-traded funds or low-cost index funds as a core investment.
The mega-retailer has since reconfigured the menu of funds to include several low-cost funds appropriately priced for institutional investors.
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Unlike traditional index funds that are very low cost and represent broad markets and segments of markets, these polluted funds and ETFs represent high-cost products that are slapped together using any old investment strategies that the creators think will sell.
Wouldn't investment managers be tempted to favor their own funds over competitors' or to steer participants into higher-cost funds?
The firm says that when investors have put money in stock funds, they have chosen low-cost index funds and ETFs.
Often these funds are not the lowest cost, best performing funds available.
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Their efforts to sell costly actively-managed mutual funds have generated a lot of trash talk about low-cost index funds.
The best of them beat the classic Vanguard mutual funds in the cost game.
Can one find great managers running low-cost funds that, over time will outperform the stock market?
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Other advantages are also fading, notably parts suppliers' access to low-cost funds from the house bank.
London is not the first to sell memorabilia in order to raise funds towards the cost of putting on the Games.
Traditional capitalization-weighted index funds are lower cost, while alternative indexes often have higher exposures to size and value factors.
Most contain a small number of low-cost funds that are easy to rebalance.
There are plenty of good, low-cost funds to choose from where you don't have to struggle to get the true expense ratio.
Anyone who wants to invest in these low-cost funds (or the many others Vanguard offers) is free to do so.
The good news: By presenting a simplified emphasis on fees, the researchers tripled the number of investors who favored the lowest-cost funds.
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These low-cost funds, coupled with a fixed strategic asset allocation based on needs, create a high probability solution for nearly every investor.
Such actions could cut off the bank from certain investors like pension funds and ultimately cost it its charter to operate in the United States.
Several other fund companies have also offered low-cost funds for decades.
Low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds will continue to grow in popularity as more investors shed high cost actively managed products and the advisers who recommend them.
Banks, flush with hundreds of billions of euros of low-cost funds, appear to have been reinvesting some of them in troubled sovereign bond markets, bringing borrowing costs down for the likes of Spain and Italy.
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Those funds of funds say that their extra cost buys you the assurance that they've vetted member funds.
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%.
ETFs were originally created as low-cost index funds designed to generate the return of a market.
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