Talk:Mutual fund fees and expenses

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The Majority of the information in this article was basically copy from the SEC website. Given that I attributed my sources and it is a government authority thus in essense public property already I posted it on wikipedia. Paul.Paquette (talk) 18:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

understandable. great job.

[edit] Expense Ratio for iShares S&P 500

I don't agree with the quoted amount of 0.09%. I'm changing this to 0.4% and citing the LSE document - or at least this will be my intention, not done a cite before. CreditQuant 17:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I did not write the preceding text (sorry I'm new to Wikipedia) I discovered independantly that you had used the text from the SEC Website. The citation of it was not apparent to me. I saw a website quoting the article: http://www.answers.com/topic/mutual-fund-fees-and-expenses and with this note: "Wikipedia information about mutual fund fees and expenses This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mutual fund fees and expenses". More from Wikipedia" Seems like a proper citation of the SEC as the source of the aritcle is in order. JPhilipW 20:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I altered the article fairly substantially. I took out most of the information which was United States specific but included a "geographical differences" section where further country differences may be added in the future.

A lot of the United States specific information explained in an overly complex way how the fees are incurred in the fund. I didn't feel this had a place in an article about what the names and definitions of fees clients actually see was concerned.

I also divided the article up into "transactional fees" and "periodic fees", which I find sections the article up much more nicely.

Feel free to discuss.