"Much has been written about 401k plan fees, and often writers will casually link mutual fund expense ratios to this issue. These linguistic short-cuts can then lead to a butterfly effect of miscalculations. For example, the popular meme that 'low expense ratio mutual funds always beat higher expense ratio mutual funds' has long been exposed as a myth ... Yet, the meme persists in the mass media (and even some trade journals). Why has this myth survived and what can be done about it?"  MORE >>