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For example, if you made a one-time investment of $10,000 in a fund with a 1 percent expense ratio and earned the market’s average return of 10 percent annually over 20 years, it would cost you ...
The best way to see if a mutual fund has competitive costs is to compare them to the ICI’s benchmark expense ratios mentioned earlier: 0.44% for equity mutual funds and 0.37% for bond mutual funds.
One notable component of the expense ratio of U.S. funds is the "12b-1 fee", which represents expenses used for advertising and promotion of the fund. 12b-1 fees are paid by the fund out of mutual fund assets and are generally limited to a maximum of 1.00% per year (.75% distribution and .25% shareholder servicing) under FINRA Rules.
Generally, unlike future performance, expenses are predictable. Funds with high expense ratios tend to continue to have high expense ratios. An investor can examine a fund's "Financial Highlights" which is contained in both the periodic financial reports and the fund's prospectus, and determine a fund's expense ratio over the last five years (if the fund has five years of history).
Fund Name Assets (millions of USD) 1 SPDR S&P 500 ETF $ 260,765.80 2 Vanguard 500 Idx Adm $ 256,872.60 3 Vanguard TSM Idx Adm $ 209,796.70 4 Fidelity 500 Index Fund $ 179,000.00 5 iShares:Core S&P 500 $ 159,711.30 6 Vanguard TSM Idx Inst+ $ 152,993.40 7 Vanguard Tot I S Inv $ 135,697.90 8 Vanguard TSM Idx Inv $ 133,038.00 9
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) deducts its expenses from the total value of the shares. These fees are typically expressed as a percentage of the fund's average net assets and referred to as the ...
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