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To: reaganaut1

Why would you want to pay mutual fund management fees when you can buy and sell Exchange Traded Funds?

They are doing those investors a favor by removing the option to invest in an underperforming asset class.


2 posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:28 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
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To: Go_Raiders

That’s all true, and I agree with you, but most investors wouldn’t know an ETF if they woke up next to it in bed.

I think what this really shows is how Progressives are destructive to free markets.


3 posted on 07/02/2014 9:21:56 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Go_Raiders

There are index mutual funds with expense ratios about as low as index ETFs.


5 posted on 07/02/2014 9:40:01 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: Go_Raiders

Agree totally. The only reason I have any mutual funds is because that’s all my 401k will allow, and I can’t pass up the employer match. But all my investments outside my 401k are stocks & ETFs and their performance kicks the mutual funds’ @ss


8 posted on 07/02/2014 9:58:14 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: Go_Raiders
Why ETF's are dangerous:

http://online.barrons.com/news/articles/SB50001424052748704567604578416593357026504 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-09/a-hidden-danger-in-etfs

11 posted on 07/02/2014 10:37:26 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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