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That honestly doesn't sound like very much to take 0.25%. Maybe if you're starting out and have $10k to invest, but once you're in the mid six figures or more,
by thesausageking 5y ago
That honestly doesn't sound like very much to take 0.25%. Maybe if you're starting out and have $10k to invest, but once you're in the mid six figures or more, the 0.25% adds up.
If you buy and hold, it doesn't take much work and expenses for Vanguard ETFs are ~0.10%. Also, once you move to Wealthfront, it's hard to ever leave because of how they break things up (which, I'm sure, isn't unintentional).
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoA big advantage of the robos is that they time the rebalancing a little better. Manually rebalancing your own Vanguard ETFs at the same time once a quarter is pretty arbitrary - it's based on what's convenient to you, but it's not necessarily what's mathematically best for your portfolio. If your allocation percentages remain very stable, you might not need to rebalance at all at the end of a quarter. If your allocations fall way out of whack, you might want to rebalance a portion of your portfolio earlier, and robos handle that timing for you. I'd be surprised if the better timing doesn't provide 0.25% of value, not to mention it's just one less thing to have to think about.
- thesausageking 5y agoRebalancing is really not that hard. If you have $500k in savings, it's definitely not worth paying $1250 for it and end up being locked into a platform that's hard to leave. In addition, Wealthfront doesn't know about all of my other holdings (house, angel investments, crypto, ...), so isn't going to do as good as I can.