After Reimbursement Expense Ratio

  

Owning a mutual fund comes with charges. Annual ones. Every fund will have expenses, which are taken out of the investor's holdings periodically. These expenses are reported to investors as an expense ratio, giving the amount as a percentage of the total assets. The charges cover things like management costs, fees, and operating expenses.

But the news isn't all bad. Along with taking out money for expenses, some funds also give some money back in the form of reimbursements.

There can be several reasons for this. One of the more prominent purposes of these payments is to keep the expense ratio below a certain amount. Some funds seek to limit expenses in order to make the funds more attractive to buyers. These so-called capped funds use reimbursements to lower the expense ratio. Particular mutual funds can reimburse specific fees or reward long-time holders by giving them a reimbursement after they have stayed invested in a fund for a minimum number of years.

The lowered ratio is reported as "after-reimbursement" so that investors can better track what's going on.

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operating expenses are the expenses it takes to operate a

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business Yeah in sort of big fat dog here but

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why would they be called out separate from any other

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expenses You know manish thana like what other expenses are

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there anyway that aren't operating All right Well we'll noodle

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the notion here for a moment Noodling noodling Well if

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you are running a drone making plant while your operating

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expenses are things like the cost of plastic molds for

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the drone itself batteries computer chips for the brains of

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the drone computer chips to communicate wirelessly with the controller

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copter blades lights packing material labour to put all this

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together and then they're shipping containers Don't forget shipping containers

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The drones don't just fly to the customer way need

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pretty ribbons on them anyway Never mind on that part

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so all of the above our core operating expenses they're

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part of what comprises the gross profits of the company

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The revenue minus the cost actually make the product but

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to fully operate the business you need to include a

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ton of other things like paying for insurance rent for

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ah building You need lawyers because they always need lawyers

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and and there's secretaries and other bureaucrats Teo you know

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do stuff run things Yeah well added up those operating

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expenses when subtracted from revenues while they give you operating

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profits or crete acts profits And there are other expenses

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like capital expenses That is you spend one hundred million

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box on a factory teo stamp out drones or whatever

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And that cash is spent immediately upfront but factory last

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twenty years So well you know what do you do

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lined appreciate factory too Zero after it's used up Well

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you might also have acquired patents which are similarly written

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down in value or advertised away as their value slowly

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fades with time like shmoop writers So what's left Well

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what comes after operating profits Well taxes on dividends and

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a bunch of other crap like you know if the

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up or down and other branham stuff it's all out

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there after operating expenses But a key idea here is

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that operating expenses are more or less Quote everything unquote

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That it takes to run the business except taxes in

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dividend obligations which aren't counted in this calculation So now

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that you have a handle on what comprises operating expenses

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