Index funds are supposed to make investing easy, painless, and trouble-free — sometimes things go wrong
Index funds, which I and most other experts recommend for investors, are supposed to make investing easy, painless, and trouble-free, producing peace of mind for their shareholders.I’ll look at four reasons you may be unhappy with an index fund, and in each case suggest what you might do to turn things around.The index funds I recommend generally have low recurring expenses, ranging from 0% to 0.25% annually, and they don’t produce this source of angst.
The fund’s annual expenses of 2.36% have sapped its performance over the past 15 years – to nearly 3 percentage points below the index it tracks. And for investors in taxable accounts, the Rydex fund’s annual tax cost is almost 1.5 percentage points higher than that of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund VFINX.What to do: First, check the annual expenses you are being charged.
· Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Admiral Shares VTSAX owns 3,833 companies, charges 0.04% expenses. Five-year compound annual return: 9.85%. Last winter, Avantis, a provider of exchange-traded funds , made a presentation to investors showing compound growth returns for six common small-cap value indexes.
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