Audit your fees

Personal Finance · Beginner

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It's the only component of your return you can control with certainty.

Micro-habits to get started

Small actions of a few minutes to start this habit:

List your products

Note every fund, plan, account and card you hold, with its approximate balance.

Many people discover products they'd forgotten they had.
15 min
Find the total annual cost

Locate the percentage deducted each year, custody included.

In European funds it appears in the key information document.
15 min
Convert it to euros

Multiply the percentage by the balance. That number is what you pay per year.

The percentage anesthetizes; the euro figure doesn't.
5 min