tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post3717512310352304941..comments2023-05-18T10:37:34.608+01:00Comments on <a href="http://www.retirementinvestingtoday.com">Retirement Investing Today</a>: Investing mistakes I’ve made – not considering investment fund feesRetirementInvestingTodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03088383743670046657noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post-24014309996756401042010-06-03T15:24:48.287+01:002010-06-03T15:24:48.287+01:00Hi Lewis
Agreed. Time Hale's book certainly c...Hi Lewis<br /><br />Agreed. Time Hale's book certainly covers most of this. Lots of other examples online also as I mentioned in the post. <br /><br />As an aside what did your average annual fees end up being after you pulled your database together?RetirementInvestingTodayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03088383743670046657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post-74964336150926386952010-06-03T15:21:29.621+01:002010-06-03T15:21:29.621+01:00Hi UKVI
It was that book title (amongst other thi...Hi UKVI<br /><br />It was that book title (amongst other things) that inspired me to go it alone back in 2007. <br /><br />Since then I've worked hard to get my total fees down to around 0.6%. Unfortunately I think that's still high compared to what's possible for investors in the US for example. Unfortunately 'rip of Britain' including 'rip off' occupational RetirementInvestingTodayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03088383743670046657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post-63063537861347884332010-06-02T15:41:38.461+01:002010-06-02T15:41:38.461+01:00Hi,
very interesting article indeed.
by the way,...Hi,<br /><br />very interesting article indeed.<br /><br />by the way, I have noticed you don't have any sort of property widget on your site. I recently came across these widgets by Zoopla, I think they might enhance the functionality of your website (the cool thing is that they are free).<br /><br />http://www.zoopla.co.uk/links/<br /><br />take care! :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07999001471155364487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post-28299505015398216712010-06-02T13:12:33.768+01:002010-06-02T13:12:33.768+01:00This echos alot of what is said in Tim Hale's ...This echos alot of what is said in Tim Hale's book, and is the philosophy that I subscribe to. In addition, most high-perfoming active funds rarely continue to perform highly over the long term, so in reality, the gap between your examples could well be even wider.Lewishttp://www.google.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875915890415125655.post-28876884740615480552010-06-02T09:53:55.982+01:002010-06-02T09:53:55.982+01:00"Where are the customer's yachts?" s..."Where are the customer's yachts?" springs to mind! It's a very difficult thing for the first time investor to get their head around I think. You look at the fees and say "hey it's only 2% a year" or whatever, and the fund's 10 year returns blow the market away, etc etc.<br /><br />I managed to do the reverse to the norm by starting out with indexing in the John Kinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06300337494606149679noreply@blogger.com