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Index funds cost next to nothing. That’s still too much.
So says a class-action lawsuit filed this month against H-E-B LP, which alleges that the San Antonio-based company has been overpaying for index funds in its employees’ retirement plan. Annual expenses on some of those market-matching funds run between 0.11% and 0.14%—but should instead be as low as 0.015%, the lawsuit argues.
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This article was originally published on The Wall Street Journal.
Further reading
Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
Jason Zweig, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary
Jason Zweig, Your Money and Your Brain
Jason Zweig, The Little Book of Safe Money