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The Ultimate Guide to Investing in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF for Maximum Returns

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One point that separates ETFs from stocks is management fees, as expressed through the expense ratio. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $358,460 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,946 !*

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A Short History of Stocks

The Big Picture

The 2000s saw a few major changes: Computers had become ubiquitous and relatively cheap, data became widely available and people soon found out how well their active managers had — or had not — done. Most of the hedge fund community would be revealed post-2009 as not worth their costs.

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The Smartest Megacap Growth ETF to Buy With $500 Right Now

The Motley Fool

The one main difference between investing in a stock and investing in an ETF is ETFs come with management fees, expressed as an expense ratio. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $368,131 !*

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Five Lessons Learned Getting to a Second Fund

This is going to be BIG.

Since I started working at First Round Capital back in 2009, very few early stage investors seem to be doing the same kinds of deals at the same stage today as they did back then. I do fine and pay my bills but greater scale, more management fees, and a bigger operation would undoubtedly put more money into my pockets in the short term.

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Beyond Inc (BYON) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

As a reminder, in April of 2021, our company entered into a limited partnership agreement with Pelion Ventures in Draper, Utah, to manage the Medici portfolio. This partnership came with an annual management fee, in addition to upside deal economics, in exchange for them nurturing these companies and building value.

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At the Money: Meb Faber on Tax Aware ETFs

The Big Picture

Listeners think to 2009, the bottom, at the bottom, um, stocks have almost been a 10 bagger. But the biggest problem, and across the board, there are massive fees. There’s fees to set up the fund. There’s usually the management fee is a 1.5% And that’s the broad market. or 2% per year on average.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

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.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee.