http://longfinancialplanning.com/blog Practical Advice About Money without all the Hype Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:23:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://longfinancialplanning.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-hidden-costs-of-mutual-funds-indexing-is-better/ http://longfinancialplanning.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-hidden-costs-of-mutual-funds-indexing-is-better/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:52:35 +0000 Chris Long http://longfinancialplanning.com/blog/?p=274 When I wrote about the advantages of index funds a few years ago I left one out:  Because index funds don’t trade as often they generate much lower trading fees vs. actively managed funds.  Unfortunately these fees are not included in the expense ratios reported by the fund, so actively managed funds are really at a greater cost disadvantage that you would expect.  Check out today’s WSJ for more details

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