“You really need to look at the weighted average total cost of your portfolio… if you can keep it around about 0.3% of a percent, I think that it would suggest… low-cost traditional indexing plus some factor-based indexing”

Stuart Weems · Investopoly · Ep 430: Is financial advice worth it? What rules can't fix.

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Target a weighted-average total expense ratio of about 0.3% for the whole portfolio by mixing low-cost index funds with a modest allocation to factor-based funds

0.3% expense ratio

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