How Low Can They Go?
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
4.5 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Reality Radio for a really great future. |
| 0:08.0 | We're talking real money. |
| 0:10.7 | Big news, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:12.7 | Big news from the folks at Vanguard. |
| 0:15.8 | They're lowering fees even farther. |
| 0:18.8 | Yes, the low fee leader is going to be even lower with its fees. |
| 0:24.8 | But, gee, they got a lot of press from this. |
| 0:29.4 | Do you think maybe that's the reason because I'm a little, this is me. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, by the way, me. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Don McDonald, not in the laundry room that's tom cock |
| 0:39.3 | laundry man smelling good baby loving the bleach in here keeps me going he's got a batch of money in the |
| 0:45.8 | washer right now as we speak laundering away laundering away uh no i i am a i'm a cynic right |
| 0:53.7 | come on yes you are i think we can safely say that yes I'm a cynic, right? Come on. Yes, you are. I think we can safely say that. Yes. I am a cynic. Yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | So when Vanguard announces that they're going to cut fees, okay, my first reaction was, oh, good for investors. Then my second reaction was, really is it good for investors? |
| 1:13.1 | Is it likely to make a difference? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, they're saying over their entire, how many trillion dollars of mutual funds are they have done? |
| 1:19.0 | It's nine trillion they manage now. |
| 1:21.1 | They manage nine trillion dollars over all of that. |
| 1:24.4 | Their aggregate savings will be 350 mil. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, that sounds like a lot of money. |
| 1:30.8 | No, no, it doesn't. |
| 1:32.4 | It sounds like 300, you got 350 million? |
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