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A Review of Tangerine Investment Funds: Do They Measure Up?
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With more and more Canadians moving towards low-fee investing options, banks and investment companies have had to step up their game, to deliver products that provide the right mix between price and performance.
In this review of Tangerine mutual funds, I’ll take a look at how one of Canada’s leading online banks is filling that need for their customers. Tangerine’s series of index mutual funds have been around for a number of years now, offering a passive investing solution with very low fees. So I wanted to find out how they stack up against other, popular low fee investment vehicles, such as ETFs.
What is an Index Fund?
In case you’re wondering, an index fund is a mutual fund that is designed to track the holdings of a specific stock market index, or indexes, in hopes that it can match the returns of the whole market. The idea being, that over the long run, it’s almost impossible to beat the market, so why try.
Index funds are generally very low cost, due to their passive management, they tend to be tax efficient, and well diversified…
In this review of Tangerine mutual funds, I’ll take a look at how one of Canada’s leading online banks is filling that need for their customers. Tangerine’s series of index mutual funds have been around for a number of years now, offering a passive investing solution with very low fees. So I wanted to find out how they stack up against other, popular low fee investment vehicles, such as ETFs.
What is an Index Fund?
In case you’re wondering, an index fund is a mutual fund that is designed to track the holdings of a specific stock market index, or indexes, in hopes that it can match the returns of the whole market. The idea being, that over the long run, it’s almost impossible to beat the market, so why try.
Index funds are generally very low cost, due to their passive management, they tend to be tax efficient, and well diversified…
