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7 Reasons to Invest in an ETF

Low-cost investing is all the rage, and for good reason. Fees can eat away at your returns.
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, over 20 years, 0.50% in annual fees lowers a portfolio value by $10,000 compared to investment fees of 0.25%. If the fees are 1% annually, that reduces the portfolio’s value by close to $30,000.
Put another way, it costs you $28,000 over 20 years if your fees are 1% on a $100,000 investment. Had you invested that $28,000 at the same rate, you would have earned an additional $12,000 over that timeframe.
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9 ETFs to Buy Now for Growth

Growth investors who prioritize these fundamentals have been well-served in 2019, and there’s a good chance that these stocks will continue to expand — and deliver continued gains to shareholders — in 2020 and beyond. Here are nine exchange-traded funds that easily wrap up some of the best growth stocks. The fund is admittedly just a vanilla index fund, with a simple screen for growth characteristics and a market-cap weighting that biases toward mega-cap technology stocks like Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). …read more […]