This is an ad from T.Rowe Price promoting their retirement funds. But ads like these are all too common in the mutual fund industry. Open any business or investing magazine and you’ll find all sorts of metrics based around Lipper. Lipper ranks, Lipper leaders, Lipper indexes, Lipper Fund Awards… But then what do they mean [...]
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Vanguard funds have some of the lowest expense ratios in the industry. Almost all of Vanguard’s ETFs have a corresponding mutual fund that either track an asset class or an index. But then, for an investor, deciding between a Vanguard ETF and mutual Fund is just not a trade-off between convenience and flexibility, although it [...]
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If you are looking to invest in passively managed Mutual Funds, look no further than Vanguard. Vanguard offers a wide range of funds with very low overheads. Thanks to Vanguard, more and more fund companies are offering low cost mutual funds. Before Vanguard, funds with 0.18 expense ratios were unheard of. I recently opened an [...]
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