Your housing expense ratio, which compares your housing costs to your gross monthly income, tells you what portion of your earnings goes toward housing expenses. Understanding this ratio can help you ...

Managed funds take a good amount of oversight to run. That’s a large part of their appeal – there’s a professional team at the helm to make sound investment decisions. To keep these funds running ...

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When it comes to investing, you've likely heard the arguments for putting your hard-earned money into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or mutual funds to diversify your portfolio or to allocate more of ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds both come with ongoing costs, but not all investors will understand exactly how these costs are calculated. A fund's expense ratio is simply the annual ...

Investors paid lower average expense ratios for equity mutual funds in 2013, says a report from the Investment Company Institute (ICI). “Trends in the Expenses and Fees of Mutual Funds, 2013” examines ...

An expense ratio is the relationship of a fund’s total assets to other administrative and operating expenses. The expense ratio is taken from the fund’s gross return, cutting into potential profit ...

Frank Sinatra sang that the best things in life are free, and the investment industry is slowly starting to come around to that wisdom. Most major brokers have eliminated commissions on basic ...

A fund's expense ratio expresses the percentage of fund assets deducted each fiscal year for fund costs, which include management fees, administrative fees, operating costs, and sometimes even ...