West Loop Financial LLCIs it OK to keep your assets with one fund family? – West Loop Financial LLC https://www.westloopfinancial.com Evolutionize Site Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 Is it OK to keep your assets with one fund family? https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/05/27/is-it-ok-to-keep-your-assets-with-one-fund-family-2/ https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/05/27/is-it-ok-to-keep-your-assets-with-one-fund-family-2/#respond Tue, 27 May 2014 16:00:01 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=976 One of the more frequently asked questions I get is about the need to diversify across mutual fund or exchange-traded fund providers: Is there risk in having all your eggs in one fund family’s basket? This question became even more prevalent after the Bernie Madoff fraud was exposed. We’ll begin to address this issue by...

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]]> One of the more frequently asked questions I get is about the need to diversify across mutual fund or exchange-traded fund providers: Is there risk in having all your eggs in one fund family’s basket? This question became even more prevalent after the Bernie Madoff fraud was exposed.

We’ll begin to address this issue by first discussing how to think about diversification of financial assets. If you use diversified, actively managed funds, you still have idiosyncratic manager risk. So, you should at the very least consider diversifying that risk.

With passively managed funds, such as index funds, that risk isn’t present. It doesn’t matter which fund family’s S&P 500 index fund you own, because except for the expense ratio, the returns of all S&P 500 index funds should be virtually identical.

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