NASAA Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png NASAA Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 ETFs vs Mutual Funds https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/etfs-mutual-funds/ Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:05:45 +0000 /blog/?p=1046 Not long ago, a friend of mine walked up to me at a neighborhood brunch and asked me what I knew about ETFs.

“Are they better than mutual funds?” he said, cherry sweet roll in one hand and cheese in the other. He is thinking of moving all of his portfolio to exchange traded funds instead of mutual funds. He was excited, the same way he gets when he’s talking about ditching his Blackberry for an iPhone 4.

He doesn’t really understand ETFs – he just wants to be in on the latest thing.

He’s not alone. Investors dropped another $47 billion into U.S. ETFs through May 2011, according to the research firm Morningstar Inc., for a total of $1.11 trillion invested in U.S. ETFs.

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