AKA “surprisingly, oligopolies are there to make money and care about their customers just enough not to pee on their faces while someone else is looking”.

  • GreyBeard
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    103 months ago

    If you have a notable amount in savings, investing it in some way is generally a good idea, but I agree with not trusting your bank to steer you right.

      • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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        3 months ago

        All-equity mutual funds net fees will, on average, return more than 5¼%. (Should be about 7-8% on average). That said, that comes with a lot of volatility (value fluctuations) and you can expect sometime in the next 50 years to have a year that’s down as much as 50%, but over the same 50 years it will outperform any GIC.

        They’re still a terrible product, though. An ETF will do the same, but be worth about 3-4× as much after 50 years due to mutual fund fees eating most of the compound gains.

        Anyway, the ethics of mutual funds are why I quit the finance industry before even really getting started in it. I did financial analytics as a co-op student for one of the major banks in the mutual funds group and had the skills and connections to make a career in finance, but I couldn’t stomach making a career working on financial products that are predatory.