US/National Long-Term Municipal Bond Mutual Funds
Lists the most economical long-term municipal bond funds available to individual investors
This article offers a list of the lowest cost long-term municipal bond index investment funds. This list of the lowest cost index investment company funds in the long-term municipal fixed income asset class is inclined to be relatively stable across time. Individual investors in the lowest fee index mutual funds tend to be attached to the short list of index mutual fund companies which furnish the lowest expense index mutual fund investments.
Shareholders in the lowest cost index investment funds understand that very low cost leads to enhanced returns as time goes by. Long-term municipal bond index mutual funds investments are not likely to have better investment performance prior to investment taxes and costs. Rather, index funds shoot for the mean or average LT muni fixed income market return, and they aren’t designed to outpace the market average return.
Nonetheless, the less expensive costs of long-term municipal bond mutual funds allow individual investors to keep possession of much more of the market investment return rather than having to share market investment returns with the financial services industry by having to pay unneeded investing charges. Over time, investors in index mutual funds tend to exceed the net returns shareholders who unwittingly pay more excessive charges to the financial services industry.
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Lowest cost Long-Term Municipal Bond Funds
Fund Name — Expense Ratio — Ticker Symbol
- Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Admiral — 0.09% expense ratio — VWLUX
- Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Investor — 0.17% expense ratio — VWLTX
- Fidelity Tax-Free Bond — 0.25% expense ratio — FTABX
- Northern Funds Tax Exempt — 0.45% expense ratio — NOTEX
- Fidelity Municipal Income — 0.45% expense ratio — FHIGX
- T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal — 0.50% expense ratio — PRINX
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The table’s initially listed low portfolio cost long-term municipal bond index mutual funds investment is the Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Admiral, that is sold and purchased with the VWLUX ticker trading symbol. The Vanguard Long Term Tax-Exempt Admiral lists the lowest fee portfolio management expenses ratio in this long-term municipal fixed income index investment company funds asset class category.
The figure’s following included low management expense long-term municipal bond index mutual fund investment is the Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Investor, that carries the VWLTX ticker trading symbol. The Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Investor provides the lowest fee management expense percentage in this long-term municipal fixed income index mutual funds investments section.
The next included low management expense long-term municipal bond index investment fund is the Fidelity Tax-Free Bond, that trades with the FTABX trading symbol. The Fidelity Tax-Free Bonds records the low expense management expenses ratio in this index mutual fund investments classification.
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The figure’s subsequently included low expense long-term muni index investment company fund is the Northern Funds Tax Exempt, with the NOTEX trading symbol. The Northern Funds Tax Exempt provides the low expense management expense ratio in this municipal fixed income index mutual funds asset class.
The subsequent line lists lowest portfolio expense muni index fund is the Fidelity Municipal Income, that trades with the FHIGX trading ticker symbol. The Fidelity Municipal Income, comes with the lowest fee management expense ratio in this index mutual funds investments classification.
The figure’s subsequently listed low management cost municipal bond index mutual fund is the T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal, with the PRINX trading symbol. The T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal carries the low fee management expenses percentage in this long-term municipal bond index investment company funds section.
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