Ed L Cashin
May 11th 04, 11:08 AM
Hi. I've recently become interested in Exchange-Traded Funds. I
notice that one of the things I should pay attention to as an investor
is the fee.
It looks like the fees are expressed succinctly by the expense ratio.
>From what I can tell, these percentages are implicitly annual.
What I can't find is a way to quickly determine the expense ratio for
a given fund. For example, let's say I discover that I want to invest
in an ETF that tracks the Russell 2000 for small cap. I can find the
expense ratio for the ishares Russell 2000 ETF (namely, IWM) at
www.indexfunds.com, but it's a busy, java-laden site, and slow to use.
The places that I usually go for quick lookups, especially
finance.yahoo.com, don't appear to show the expense ratio when I look
up an ETF by its symbol.
I read at a couple places that The NY Times and The Wallstreet Journal
newspapers have the expense ratios for funds. Is there an online
source that is pretty comprehensive and quick to use? Maybe I'm just
missing the expense ratio in the data that fool and yahoo are showing
me?
Thanks!
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notice that one of the things I should pay attention to as an investor
is the fee.
It looks like the fees are expressed succinctly by the expense ratio.
>From what I can tell, these percentages are implicitly annual.
What I can't find is a way to quickly determine the expense ratio for
a given fund. For example, let's say I discover that I want to invest
in an ETF that tracks the Russell 2000 for small cap. I can find the
expense ratio for the ishares Russell 2000 ETF (namely, IWM) at
www.indexfunds.com, but it's a busy, java-laden site, and slow to use.
The places that I usually go for quick lookups, especially
finance.yahoo.com, don't appear to show the expense ratio when I look
up an ETF by its symbol.
I read at a couple places that The NY Times and The Wallstreet Journal
newspapers have the expense ratios for funds. Is there an online
source that is pretty comprehensive and quick to use? Maybe I'm just
missing the expense ratio in the data that fool and yahoo are showing
me?
Thanks!
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--Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/