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• efflandt Said on January 30th, 2010 at 11:27 am:
  

  There are trade commissions if you trade stocks, ETF’s, or actual bonds. For mutual funds they get a portion of the annual expense ratio the fund charges, even if it has no load or transaction fee. The expense ratio is a small percentage already deducted out of historical returns, so you don’t really see that amount directly. But the expense ratio should be listed somewhere in details about the fund.

• $so fresh so clean$ Said on January 30th, 2010 at 11:56 am:
  

  They have annual fees or “expense” ratios.