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by cloudjacker 3627 days ago
The problem with disintermediating is that it means you can't make any money either. Looking forward to the blog article when some blockchain community is undercutting your 0.13%
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Yeah, what is the secret sauce that lets them be profitable on only 3bp and provide a fund expense of only 10bp? All the roboadvisors are a 15-25bp wrap and ~16bp funds fees. A 401k provider is naturally more costly since there are compliance issues.
No secret sauce. We are a SaaS company, not an AUM fee based company. We are not a robo advisor. We focus on retirement, tax advantaged accounts not cash accounts. Compliance issues are perfect problems for computers to solve ;)
Or, Vanguard could lower their already low prices. Fund managers are already locked in a race to the bottom on fund fees.