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Investment costs – small today, but…

investors are often cautioned that high fees and costs can be detrimental to investment performance. Every investment comes at a cost, but are higher investment management costs really an indicator of better management skill and performance?

Many financial service providers use this explanation to justify fees on their products – that you get what you pay for in terms of the skill and knowledge needed to manage investments on your behalf. But published fund performance data for equity funds in South

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