Article: SCOTT BURNS: A yardstick for mutual fund expenses

Article: ETFs are good if your managed fund's expense ratio ...
Daily Breeze;  September 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... managed fund with an expense ratio of 1.5 percent. How long will it take ... Spyders has an annual expense ratio of 0.12 percent. The competing iShares ... index ETF has an annual expense ratio of 0.09 percent. The iShares Russell ...

Article: Expense Ratio Not Representative of Costs.
Money Management Executive;  February 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... compare funds in like categories. The expense ratio is simply the fees paid to service ... trading a fund, is not included in the expense ratio and can often rival or surpass the ... fund. "If you are going to use an expense ratio, it shouldn't be misleading, and ...

Article: Expense ratio doesn't cover all of mutual fund's ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  January 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... that a mutual fund's expense ratio doesn't encompass ... just as surely as your expense ratio will. Fund companies ... costs that amount to 1 percent or more per year. Those ... to a fund's stated expense ratio, any sales charges ...

Article: `Expense ratio' always reduces investor's profit
The Boston Globe;  July 28, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... into a fund with a 0.5 percent expense ratio and the portfolio grew ... after 20 years. With a 1 percent annual expense ratio, assuming the same ... manager is getting 20 percent a year, {the expense ratio} is not as big a deal ...

Article: Conestoga Small Cap Fund Reaches $20 Million Mark and Caps ...
PR Newswire;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... December 29, 2006, the Fund will cap its expense ratio at 1.10% under a contractual agreement ... September 30, 2006, the Fund's expense ratio was 1.35%. "Over the four-year ... we have periodically lowered the expense ratio as the assets under management have ...

Article: Vanguard fund's low expense ratio nets high ...
The Bond Buyer;  July 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... return in the last year thanks to a low expense ratio and heavy investment in intermediate ... fund's income performance to its expense ratio of about 20 basis points. "We run the lowest-expense ratio funds that I know of by a long way ...

Article: Insurer expense ratio higher despite ...
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  March 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... insurers had an expense ratio increase of 0.5 percent of premiums to ... study found. The expense ratio for commercial ... u from 45.1 percent in 1993 to 46 ... example, the 1994 expense ratio of 46.5 percent declines to 41 ...