I love free or low-cost service as much as the next guy. But, when it comes to financial services, if it’s “free”, buyer beware.
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Whether they represent a past mistake, bad luck, or a choice that made perfect sense at the time but no longer does, you are subject to sunken cost fallacy when a holding is no longer serving for your current goals. Learn how to avoid this trap.
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Hidden trading costs can be difficult to combat; they are by definition elusively observed and slippery to measure. Most investors are unaware they even exist.
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In considering the impact of expense ratios, Dimensional demonstrated that, over time, funds with higher expense ratios lost ground – fell down too many chutes, if you will – compared to low-expense-ratio funds.
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If your comparable fund’s total expense ratio is considerably higher, you may want to find out why.
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Seek a fee-only advisor, so he or she is being solely compensated by you, the client, with no outside incentives from other sources.
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If minimizing excess fees is such a big deal, why doesn’t every investor pay rabidly close attention to them? We can think of at least three reasons…
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“In investing, you get what you don’t pay for.”
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