Yeah, Vanguards Total Stock Market fund charges like 0.05% in fees per annum. It's trivial. ETFs are good too though.
Yeah, people are like this fund or that fund is hot, but then you see the fees and you are like they better be hot to cover that expense ratio. I don't want to bother researching fund managers and playing the game. Honestly if you look back historically if you just hold down those expense ratios and are semi right about about which asset class to be in you do pretty well long term. I've really taken the investment advice of one of our banned conservative members to heart. Next time there is a deep recession I am going to pile into equities.
