Mutual funds and ETFs both offer the opportunity to more easily gain exposure to a large number of securities. Both are managed by a fund manager who tries to achieve the stated investment goals of the fund. An S&P 500 mutual fund or ETF typically tries to match the makeup and returns of...
ETFs do not charge annual 12b-1 fees. These fees are advertising, marketing, and distribution costs that a mutual fund passes to its shareholders. Each investor pays for the fund company to acquire new shareholders.
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The New York State Attorney General’s office has weighed-in on behalf of investors, and active share. Active share is a measure of the extent of the difference between what’s in fund’s portfolio and what’s in the fund’s benchmark index. If your fund holds all the same stocks in ...
The passively managed fund's expense ratio is 0.05%.1 2. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) AUM: $104.8 billion (as of January 6, 2024)2 Launched in 2012, BlackRock's iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF seeks to track the MSCI EAFE Investable Market Index (IMI), which is similar to the...