Fund Management Fee Impact Calculator
Compounds an initial contribution at the gross annual return minus the management fee over the years you set and shows the final net balance in R$.
Final net (R$)
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Management fee impact on funds
Fund returns compound over time โ and so do management fees. The net annual return is roughly gross_return โ management_fee, and over a long horizon that small subtraction turns into a huge gap. A 1% p.a. management fee compounded over 30 years eats about 25% of your final wealth. Example: put R$ 1M to work for 30 years at 10% gross. A fund charging 2% p.a. leaves you around R$ 7.6M, while a passive ETF at 0.1% gets you to roughly R$ 16.5M. In Brazil, active funds usually charge 1.5โ2% p.a. on top of a 20% performance fee on anything above a benchmark (CDI or IBOV). Passive ETFs charge 0.03โ0.2% (BOVA11 at 0.1%, IVVB11 at ~0.2%).
Applications
Financial education, deciding between an ETF and an active fund (net of fees the passive option usually comes out ahead โ SPIVA reports keep showing that more than 80% of active funds trail their benchmark over 10+ years), retirement planning across 20โ30 years, and weighing a private banking pitch against low-cost brokerage products.
FAQ
Is the fee charged on profit or on equity? The management fee comes out of total equity (assets under management) no matter how the fund performs. The performance fee only applies to returns that beat the benchmark.
Why does 1% sound small but matters so much? It gets taken out every single year, and the money that left never compounds again. Stretch that across 30 years and the lost compounding ends up being the bigger share of the gap.
Are taxes included? No. This calculator looks only at fee impact. Income tax (15โ22.5% on most funds, or the semi-annual come-cotas) cuts into the net result on top of that.
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