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Here's my understanding: if you use Wealthfront direct indexing, you mostly hold stocks, so you pay a minimal amount in ETF fees. This means your expense ratio
by rgarcia 11y ago
Here's my understanding: if you use Wealthfront direct indexing, you mostly hold stocks, so you pay a minimal amount in ETF fees. This means your expense ratio is pretty close to the Wealthfront fee of 0.25%.
If you put everything in a Vanguard target retirement fund, your expense ratio is something like 0.18%. [1]
So as long as tax loss harvesting adds a tiny fraction of a percent (~0.07%) to your returns, it seems optimal to use Wealthfront, no?
[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0699&FundIntExt=INT https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0699&...
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- maaku 11y agoWealthfront fee is ON TOP OF the underlying ETFs.
- asift 11y agoThis is correct. Also, tax-loss harvesting isn't the only benefit of direct indexing. Charitable gifting of highly appreciated securities is a potentially huge benefit that direct indexing has over ETFs (even better given that it doesn't ratchet down your basis like TLH or create wash sale issues).