Posts Tagged "management expense ratio"

TER: The Trading Expense Ratio or Total Expense Ratio?

Posted by Preet on Mar 23, 2010 | 1 comment

By now, most people have heard of the MER (Management Expense Ratio) in mutual funds and ETFs. Another term that gets bandied about is the TER, which is less well known and has a few different meanings depending on which country you are in. Meaning 1: TER = Trading Expense Ratio (Canada) When you look at a Canadian fund’s MRFP (Management’s Report on Fund Performance), it is now required to show the Trading expense ratio of the fund which represents the amount of trading commissions incurred to manage the portfolio as a percentage of the total assets of the fund. For example, if you had a $100 million fund and the trading commissions for the year incurred by...

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Mutual Funds: Great for portfolios up to $100,000

Posted by Preet on Jul 28, 2007 | 0 comments

I suppose many financial advisors licensed to sell ONLY mutual funds will cringe at this information. First, I want to say that if you have more than $100,000 in your portfolio it does not automatically mean that it is time to get out of mutual funds. But certainly once you pass this threshold you will want to look at alternatives to mutual funds as your options open up (based primarily on the fact that buying in bulk reduces your trading costs). If you remember in my first post on Mutual Funds we defined mutual funds as being the ideal investment for SMALL investors because trying to build your own diversified portfolio would cost too much in trading commissions. So...

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What is a Mutual Fund? A basic understanding…

Posted by Preet on Jul 26, 2007 | 0 comments

I suppose this should be one of the first posts seeing as how most people are invested in mutual funds (and have no idea what they are, what the differences are between them, and what kinds of mutual funds there are out there). It is also of note that many investors might be better off getting out of mutual funds at a certain point… but I’ll get into that in another post! A mutual fund is a means for small investors to pool their money together (MUTUALLY) with other small investors so that they may hire a Mutual Fund Manager to take the collective funds and create a diversified investment portfolio that is invested on behalf of all the small investors....

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