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6 Index Funds You Can Buy For A Song

TedTed
in Fund Discussions
FYI: The positive impact of low fees for ETF and index fund investors is palpable.

“In any market, the average return for all investors before costs is, by definition, equal to the market return. Once various costs are accounted for, however, the distribution of returns realized by investors moves to the left, because their aggregate return is now less than the market’s. The actual return for all investors combined is thus the market return reduced by all costs paid. One important implication of this is that, after costs, fewer investors are able to outperform the markets,” according to Vanguard[7].

With that in mind, let’s have a look at some of the lowest fee ETF index funds on the market today
Regards,
Ted
http://investorplace.com/2015/12/cheap-portfolio-cheapest-etfs-index-funds/print

Comments

  • CrashCrash
    edited December 2015
    Vanguard Small Cap ETF: ER of 0.09% matches wifey's 403b holding in VSMAX. It's down -5.34%, ytd. In small cap, my others are: PRDSX, eking-out a positive number, ytd, at +0.66% and MSCFX, down further than the Vang, at -6.63%. But Friday last was a stinker.
  • dicksonL
    VB and vsmax are 2 share classes of the same fund.
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