Vanguard ETF fees & minimums | Vanguard (2024)

FAQs

How to avoid Vanguard $25 fee? ›

Vanguard Brokerage Services® won't assess the fee if a client's total qualifying Vanguard assets are at least $5 million. Mutual fund-only accounts: $25 for each Vanguard mutual fund. We'll waive the fee if you have at least $5 million in qualifying Vanguard assets.

There is no dollar value minimum investment for Vanguard's ETFs, however, the minimum investment for any market participant is the cost of one share.

Vanguard fund trading fees

You won't pay a commission to buy or sell Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs online in your Vanguard account. A few Vanguard mutual funds charge fees designed to help cover high transaction costs and discourage short-term trading.

Also known as ETF transaction fees or ETF transaction costs, these may range from $8 to $30 at brokerage firms. Trading commissions are charged per trade, so they can add up if investors buy and sell a lot—and they're usually more expensive when an order is placed in person or over the phone.

To keep costs low, Vanguard often uses a sampling strategy to construct its index funds using less than the total number of assets in an index. Vanguard offers funds that track a wide variety of market indices, large and small.

Vanguard and Fidelity charge $0 commissions for online equity, options, and ETF trades for U.S.-based customers. Fidelity has a $0.65 per contract option fee; it's $1 at Vanguard. Fidelity will set you back more for broker-assisted stock trades ($32.95 versus Vanguard's $25.

For most investors, the differences between the four ETFs are minor. They all track the same index, have similar holdings, and largely similar returns. The primary difference between SPY, VOO, IVV, and SPLG is their cost. SPLG has the lowest cost at 0.02%, followed by VOO and IVV at 0.03%, and SPY at 0.09%.

$0.00 commission applies to online U.S. equity trades, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and options (+ $ 0.65 per contract fee) in a Fidelity retail account only for Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC retail clients. Sell orders are subject to an activity assessment fee (from $0.01 to $0.03 per $1,000 of principal).

Expense ratios can range from as low as 0.03% for some passively managed ETFs to over 1% for actively managed or specialized ETFs. Factoring in 0.5% to 0.75% for actively managed fees is considered to be around the average.

Why are ETF fees so low? ›

ETFs are cheaper than traditional mutual funds for many reasons. For starters, most ETFs are index funds, and tracking an index is inherently less expensive than active management. But index-based ETFs are even cheaper than index-based mutual funds.

The price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of an ETF measures the collective price of an ETF's holdings relative to their respective earnings. A high P/E ratio indicates that the ETF is overvalued.

Effective July 1, Vanguard will begin charging a $25 broker-assisted commission for each Vanguard mutual fund and exchange-traded fund trade placed over the phone.

To set or change your preferred cost basis method for each holding prior to the transfer, do one of the following: • Log on to your Vanguard account, and from the menu, choose My Accounts and select Account maintenance. Then, under Account profile, select Cost basis method and follow the instructions.

a $100 processing fee for closing a Vanguard account or transferring the assets to another firm. a 20% charge for money recovered through class-action settlements in which Vanguard's brokerage will handle the payments, a new service for the company.

No worries - Vanguard is a reliable broker that lets you access your funds any time. You can use only bank transfers to withdraw funds. In most cases, you can get your money back within 2 days. Vanguard charges $0 for basic withdrawals, but some methods may cost more.