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How to compare expense ratio and turnover of two funds?
Can someone tell how to compute a single number based on expense ratio, turnover, and possibly tax rate that can then be used to compare the net expenses one can expect to incur between two funds? If ...
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Why are the administrative fees for the three biggest donor-advised funds identical?
Fidelity, Vanguard, and Charles Schwab—the companies that run the three largest donor-advised funds—all charge exactly the same administrative fee to small investors: 0.6% a year on the first ...
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Tax implications of 401k regular rebalancing vs a retirement target fund
This question is in the context of securities held within a 401k.
As I understand it, one of the advantages of a retirement target date fund (like Fidelity's FFFHX, which I am in 100%) is that the ...
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Does the expense ratio of a fund-of-funds include the expense ratios of its holdings?
Suppose a mutual fund invests only in other mutual funds, instead of investing in stocks or bonds directly. Does the reported expense ratio of that fund include the expense ratios of the funds it ...
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Two Different Websites List Different Expense Ratios - Which One Can I Trust?
I'm trying to find VXF's expense ratio.
Finance.yahoo.com says that it is .10%.
Seeking Alpha says that it is .16%. (and I suppose that I should consider that a tracking error of .11% further ...
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What are these fees attached to mutual fund FSEMX?
Could somebody please explain these fees attached to FSEMX?
Annual Report Expense Ratio (net)
Prospectus Net Expense Ratio
Prospectus Gross Expense Ratio
Finance.yahoo.com indicates that they are ...
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How do expense ratios work?
Simple question - how do expense ratios work? Is there a fee that is calculated regularly, and the amount is taken out of my account? Is it subtracted from the funds earnings?
Context:
My work has ...
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Do I need to own all the funds my target-date funds owns to mimic it?
I just calculated out that investing my Roth IRA in a Lifecycle fund will cost me about $65k more than investing directly in the underlying funds, effectively doubling the expense ratio. And the funds ...
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Are there two layers of fees in a 529 “portfolio”?
I'm looking specifically at this 529 plan Fidelity Intermediate Bond Portfolio, which is invested exclusively in this Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund - Class I.
The portfolio lists a 1.64% Gross ...
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Do net returns on mutual funds include expense ratio?
I'm considering an actively managed bond fund (DODIX) versus an similar index fund (VBMFX). Both are high quality intermediate funds. The 10-year return of DODIX (exp ratio 0.43%) is 0.86% higher than ...
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How to quantify differences in return with low expense ratio vs high expense ratio mutual funds?
One often repeated piece of financial advice is to work to minimize your expense ratios in your mutual funds in order to maximize your returns.
While it is often straightforward to determine the ...
