{"id":1326,"date":"2014-06-02T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:34:49","slug":"watch-the-fees-on-your-mutual-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/watch-the-fees-on-your-mutual-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the fees on your mutual funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Low cost is the single best predictor of subsequent performance [for mutual funds] &#8230; it&#8217;s definitely not past performance.&#8221;, according to the director of fund research at Morningstar.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what the expense ratios are for the funds in which you&#8217;re invested?  Or the blended expense ratio for your portfolio?<\/p>\n<p>With a five-year bull market behind us, even ordinary mutual funds and ETFs are posting superficially attractive historical performance numbers.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire May 31, 2014 New York Times &#8220;Your Money&#8221; feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/your-money\/rules-of-the-fund-road-watch-the-fees-and-dont-look-back.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Low cost is the single best predictor of subsequent performance [for mutual funds] &#8230; it&#8217;s definitely not past performance.&#8221;, according to the director of fund research at Morningstar. Do you know what the expense ratios are for the funds in which you&#8217;re invested? Or the blended expense ratio for your portfolio? With a five-year bull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[60,81,86,100],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}