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Another day, another clash of the brokers' broadswords.

The lower rate also applies to options trades, though the company maintained its 0. The rates don't match those of its rivals. Vanguard Group on Friday lowered expense ratios for 68 ETFs and mutual funds. That was the third set of cuts by the company since December.

The moves fit into a larger trend, as the big brokerage firms vie for market share. Fidelity soon found it had lost those bragging rights.

New fund reports from Vanguard showed a 0. One upstart firm took advantage of the fee-cutting scrum to take a shot at the giants of the industry.

Fidelity also lowered rates for investors who trade on margin, with money borrowed from their broker. The new rates span five tiers of assets, instead of six, and start at 8. Schwab's margin rates 2 remain higher than those at Fidelity, and TD Ameritrade's 3 top Schwab's.

Fidelity hopes young investors, among others, will be attracted to its lower fees. Last year, the company launched Fidelity Go, a robo-adviser catering to " digital first " investors.

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Millennials are living in a world in which the damage that high fees can do to a retirement portfolio is widely discussed. Department of Labor rule requiring firms that handle retirement accounts to act as fiduciaries—advisers who must put clients' interests before their own when recommending investments—was to go into effect on April The Trump administration has ordered the Department of Labor to reconsider the rule.

Its fate is now uncertain. All the more reason to make sure your adviser is a fiduciary, bound to watch out for you when it comes to high fees and other perils of investing. As Vanguard noted in a press release about the funds, "expense ratios represent the actual operating expenses for the prior fiscal year The rates at Schwab are 8.

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The rate is 6. At TD Ameritrade, margin rates start at 9.

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